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Strike ID:
E20-11o31
CVSS:
10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
False Positive:
t
Variants:
3
Year:
2020

Description

This strike exploits a command injection vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. The vulnerability is due to a combination of missing authentication of the hostname uri and a lack of input sanitization for injection or invalid characters in the hostname parameter. When an attacker sends an HTTP POST request to "/emi/api/hostname", command execution can occur.

CVE

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2020-4211