CVE-2020-4415

9.8 criticalEPSS 8.1%

Critical (9.8) in ibm spectrum protect. EPSS 8.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 server is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of an administrator or user associated with the Spectrum Protect server or cause the Spectrum Protect server to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 179990.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 8.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-20, CWE-787
Published: 2020-04-23
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

ibm:spectrum_protect

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/179990
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6195706
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/179990
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6195706

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