IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.7 uses Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) which could allow an attacker to carry out privil…

published 2021-04-26 5y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-7850

cvss: 6.5; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.7%; EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 55%
public exploits: 0; none known

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.7 uses Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) which could allow an attacker to carry out privileged actions and retrieve sensitive information as the domain name is not being limited to only trusted domains. IBM X-Force ID: 196344.

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Exploit prediction

0.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/UI:N/I:L/S:U/A:N/C:L/PR:N/AC:L/RC:C/RL:O/E:U
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CNA	3.0	6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	6.4	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected products

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

References

ibm.com /support/pages/node/6445733
vendor-advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/196344
vdb-entry, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-20432
NVD CVE-2021-20432

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