VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5918

medium
Published 2017-02-08 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
4.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.7

Description

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows displays the encrypted Tivoli Storage Manager password in application trace output if the password access option is prompt and the password is changed.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
47%
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
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_space_management{"endIncluding":"7.1.4.1"}
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_space_management7.1.0.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_space_management6.4.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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