CVE-2016-8937

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication3 documents3 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
0.2%
top 53.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
IBM Spectrum ProtectIBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Timeline
PublishedOct 5
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDibm/tivoli_storage_manager65 versions+64
▶CVEListV5ibm/spectrum_protect7.1, 8.1+1

Patches

Patch: www.ibm.com ↗Patch: www.ibm.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-m96f-f8pc-696h: The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect 7↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-8937: The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect 7↗2017-10-05
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CVE-2016-8937 (CRITICAL CVSS 9.8) | The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM | cvebase.io