Security Bulletin: Directory Traversal vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus (CVE-2020-4240, CVE-2020-4209)

Summary

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system which can result in the creation of arbitrary files on the system or files being overwritten.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-4240
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request to overwrite or create arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 4.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175417 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2020-4209
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to create arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175019 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1135035&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None