CVE-2020-5019

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

Medium · published January 8, 2021

CVSS v3.0
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
71.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AC:L/C:L/PR:N/UI:N/A:N/S:U/AV:N/I:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01338 · 71.0th percentile
Published
2021-01-08T19:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 JAN 19:10Z
    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
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