CVE-2020-4273

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2 and 5.0 could allow a local unprivileged attacker with intimate knowledge of the enviornment to execute commands as root using specially crafted input. IBM X-Force ID: 175977.

Affected products

IBM Spectrum Scale: from 4.2.0.0 through 4.2.3.20; from 5.0.0.0 through 5.0.4.2

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175977
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6151701
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175977
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6151701

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