QID 375924

Date Published: 2021-10-04

QID 375924: IBM Spectrum Protect Server Multiple Vulnerabilities (6442991)

IBM Spectrum Protect provides automated, centrally scheduled, policy-managed backup, archive, and space-management capabilities for file servers.

CVE-2020-14782: An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVE-2020-27221: Eclipse OpenJ9 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding. By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

Affected Versions:
IBM Spectrum Protect Server 8.1.0.000 - 8.1.11.000
IBM Spectrum Protect Server 7.1.0.000 - 7.1.13.100

QID Detection Logic(Authenticated):
This checks for vulnerable versions of IBM Spectrum Protect.

Successful exploitation it allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause high confidentiality, integrity and availability impact.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • Solution
    Vendor has released updated version to address this issue. Refer to 6442991 for details.
    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    6442991 URL Logo www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6442991