CVE-2016-8937

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - psirt@us.ibm.com

Published

2017-10-05

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-287

Affected products

• Spectrum Protect (Ibm)
• Tivoli Storage Manager (Ibm)

References

• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22007935
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/118750