IBM Spectrum Protect Plus up to 10.1.6 Administrative Console unrestricted upload

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus up to 10.1.6. This affects an unknown function of the component Administrative Console. The manipulation leads to unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-4703. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus up to 10.1.6 (Backup Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Administrative Console. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.6 Administrative Console could allow an authenticated attacker to upload arbitrary files which could be execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable server. This vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-4470. IBM X-Force ID: 187188.

The weakness was shared 09/15/2020 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at ibm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-4703 since 12/30/2019. The attack may be initiated remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. 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 09/16/2020). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1608.002 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
• 10.1.6

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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