IBM Spectrum Protect

CVE-2016-8937
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.90 % · percentile 80 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
ibm
NVD status
Modified

Description

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1) default authentication protocol is vulnerable to a brute force attack due to disclosing too much information during authentication. An attacker could gain user or administrative access to the TSM server. IBM X-Force ID: 118750.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
IBM · Spectrum Protectaffected 7.1 ; affected 8.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD