CVE-2020-4638: IBM API Connect

IBM API Connect's API Manager 2018.4.1.0 through 2018.4.1.12 is vulnerable to privilege escalation.

CVSS 7.2 HighEPSS 0.017 · 77th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: ibm) at 3 Sept 2020, 13:55 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
IBM	API Connect	affected 2018.4.1.0 affected 2018.4.12

Identifiers

CVE-2020-4638

CNA

ibm

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.2	High	3.0	CVSS:3.0/I:H/AC:L/S:U/C:H/AV:N/PR:H/A:H/UI:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O	CNA (ibm)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.017, the 77th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 3 Sept 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6324751 confirm
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/185508 vdb-entryxf

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