Check Point Advisories

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Command Injection (CVE-2020-4211)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2020-3621
Date Published: 7 Dec 2022
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Wednesday 07 December, 2022
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2020-4211
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0-10.1.5 prior to build 2181
Vulnerability Description A command injection vulnerability exists in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. The vulnerability is due to a lack of input validation in the Administrative Console service when parsing the hostname parameter. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted requests to a target system.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R81 / R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Command Injection (CVE-2020-4211) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  IBM Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Command Injection (CVE-2020-4211)

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