CVE-2021-39063: Security Bulletin: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is vulnerable to SSRF, MITM, and CORS attacks

Summary

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack, and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) attack.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2021-39057
DESCRIPTION: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF). This may allow an authenticated attacker to send unauthorized requests from the system, potentially leading to network enumeration or facilitating other attacks.
CVSS Base score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/214616 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2020-4496
DESCRIPTION: The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server connection to an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus workload agent is subject to a man-in-the-middle attack due to improper certificate validation.
CVSS Base score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/182046 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2021-39063
DESCRIPTION: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus uses Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) which could allow an attacker to carry out privileged actions and retrieve sensitive information due to a misconfiguration in access control headers.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/214956 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)

Version(s)

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

10.1.0.0-10.1.8.x

Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

References

Off

Acknowledgement

Change History

10 December 2021: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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