CVE-2020-4954

5.4 mediumEPSS 0.6%

Medium (5.4) in ibm spectrum protect operations center. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 7.1 and 8.1 could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication restrictions, caused by improper session validation . By using the configuration panel to obtain a valid session using an attacker controlled IBM Spectrum Protect server, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass authentication and gain access to a limited number of debug functions, such as logging levels. IBM X-Force ID: 192153.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium

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

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-384
Published: 2021-02-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

ibm:spectrum_protect_operations_center

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192153
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6404966
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192153
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6404966

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