CVE-2020-5019

MEDIUM

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0-10.1.6 - HTTP Header Injection via HOST Header

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.6 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject HTTP HOST header, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 193655.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6398754
VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/193655

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0132
EPSS Percentile 67.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-74
Status published
Products (1)
ibm/spectrum_protect_plus 10.1.0 - 10.1.7
Published Jan 08, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026