IBM Spectrum Protect Plus up to 10.1.5 Request path traversal

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus up to 10.1.5. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation as part of Request leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-4209. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus up to 10.1.5 (Backup Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation as part of a Request leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 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. IBM X-Force ID: 175019.

The weakness was disclosed 05/04/2020 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-4209 since 12/30/2019. The attack may be initiated remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/05/2020). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• Backup Software

Vendor

• IBM

Name

• Spectrum Protect Plus

Version

• 10.1.0
• 10.1.1
• 10.1.2
• 10.1.3
• 10.1.4
• 10.1.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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