VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5945

medium
Published 2016-09-26 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

IBM Spectrum Control (formerly Tivoli Storage Productivity Center) 5.2.x before 5.2.11 allows remote authenticated users to upload non-executable files via a crafted HTTP request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
53%
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 ibmspectrum_control5.2.8
ibm ibmspectrum_control5.2.9
ibm ibmspectrum_control5.2.10
ibm ibmspectrum_control5.2.10.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.1.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.4
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.4.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.5
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.5.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.6
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.7
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.7.1

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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

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