CVE-2016-8940

Severity
8.8HIGH
EPSS
0.3%
top 43.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMar 7
Latest updateMay 17

Description

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect) 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, and 7.1 does not perform sufficient authority checking on SQL queries. As a result, an attacker is able to submit SQL queries that access database tables that are not intended for access or use by administrators. The access of these product specific database tables may allow access to passwords or other sensitive information for the product. IBM Reference #: 1998946.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDibm/tivoli_storage_manager50 versions+49
CVEListV5ibm_corporation/tivoli_storage_manager54 versions+53

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-f743-8m8m-5x2v: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect) 62022-05-17
CVEList
CVE-2016-8940: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect) 62017-03-07
CVE-2016-8940 (HIGH CVSS 8.8) | IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spe | cvebase.io