CVE-2020-4471
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause...
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service or hijack DNS sessions by send a specially crafted HTTP command to the remote server. IBM X-Force ID: 181726.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service or hijack DNS sessions by send a specially crafted HTTP command to the remote server. IBM X-Force ID: 181726.
- Record
CVE-2020-4471- CVSS 3.0
- 4.8 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/PR:N/AC:H/C:N/UI:N/S:U/A:L/I:L/E:U/RC:C/RL:O - Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-25718
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service or hijack DNS sessions by send a specially crafted HTTP command to the remote server. IBM X-Force ID: 181726.
- Record
EUVD-2020-25718- CVSS 3.0
- 4.8 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/PR:N/AC:H/C:N/UI:N/S:U/A:L/I:L/E:U/RC:C/RL:O - Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-m6hc-4f95-rgqf No score
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause...
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service or hijack DNS sessions by send a specially crafted HTTP command to the remote server. IBM X-Force ID: 181726.
- Record
GHSA-m6hc-4f95-rgqf- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service or hijack DNS sessions by send a specially crafted HTTP command to the remote server. IBM X-Force ID: 181726.
- Record
CVE-2020-4471- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L - CVSS 3.0
- 4.8 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L - CVSS 2.0
- 6.4 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-306
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-4471 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) in Ibm Spectrum Protect Plus, published June 15, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.65%, the 85th percentile. No source names a fixed version.