Threats / IBM / CVE-2020-4428
CVE-2020-4428
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
IBM Data Risk Manager vulnerability
IBM Data Risk Manager contains an OS command injection vulnerability allowing authenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on affected systems.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
A command injection flaw in IBM Data Risk Manager enables authenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution. Active exploitation in the wild combined with high EPSS score indicates significant operational risk requiring immediate patching.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
2 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.61692 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: IBM, Data Risk Manager. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-78 OS Command Injection — weakness family: Injection.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I authenticate to the Data Risk Manager application using valid credentials.
Business
Legitimate user accounts or compromised credentials provide initial access vector.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I inject OS commands through an unspecified input parameter that is not properly sanitized.
Business
Application input validation failures create execution pathways for malicious code.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I execute arbitrary system commands with the privileges of the Data Risk Manager process.
Business
Attackers gain full system compromise capability, potentially accessing sensitive data classification and risk assessment information.
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Data at risk — exfiltration narrative 4
Attacker
I establish persistence or pivot to other systems on the network.
Business
Infrastructure compromise spreads beyond the vulnerable application, threatening enterprise data governance and compliance posture.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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