CVE-2013-6714

medium

Published 2014-05-26 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.1

Description

The FlashCopy Manager for VMware component in IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 3.1 through 4.1.0.1 does not properly check authorization for backup and restore operations, which allows local users to obtain sensitive VM data or cause a denial of service (data overwrite or disk consumption) via unspecified GUI actions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	tivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager	`3.1.0`
ibm	tivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager	`3.1.1`
ibm	tivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager	`3.2.0`
ibm	tivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager	`3.2.1`
ibm	tivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager	`4.1.0`
ibm	tivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager	`4.1.0.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.