VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6110

medium
Published 2017-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
6.5

Description

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager discloses unencrypted login credentials to Vmware vCenter that could be obtained by a local user.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996198

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
linux linux-kernelnot-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmtivoli_storage_manager{"endIncluding":"7.1.6.3"}
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.0.0
ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware{"endIncluding":"7.1.6.3"}
ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware7.1.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-255

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