CVE-2020-4954

mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.006 · 48 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.59% (48th) EPSS

CVSS 4.8 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 7.1 and 8.1 could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication restrictions, caused by improper session validation . By using the configuration panel to obtain a valid session using an attacker controlled IBM Spectrum Protect server, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass authentication and gain access to a limited number of debug functions, such as logging levels. IBM X-Force ID: 192153.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.8mediumAV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.5 · impact 4.9

v3.15.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 2.5

v3.04.2mediumCVSS:3.0/C:L/I:L/AV:A/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/AC:H/A:N/RL:O/E:U/RC:Csecondary · ENISA EU

v3.04.2mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · psirt@us.ibm.com USexploitability 1.6 · impact 2.5

v3.15mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-384USprimary

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center≤ 7.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center≤ 7.1.12enisa_euvdEU
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center≤ 8.1.10.100enisa_euvdEU
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center≤ 8.1enisa_euvdEU
ibm spectrum protect operations center7.1.0.000 → 7.1.13.000nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_operations_center:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm spectrum protect operations center8.1.0.000 → 8.1.10.200nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_operations_center:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-02-15modified 2026-06-17

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references (10)

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