CVE-2020-5019

Published Jan 8, 2021

Last updated 4 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
psirt@us.ibm.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
6.5
Impact score
2.5
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
6.5
Impact score
2.5
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.4
Impact score
4.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-74

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations