VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8916

medium
Published 2017-05-05 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/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
5.5

Description

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5, 6.1-6.4, and 7.1 stores password information in a log file that could be read by a local user when a set password command is issued. IBM X-Force ID: 118472.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager{"endIncluding":"6.3"}
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.4.0.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.4.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.4.1.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.4.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.4.2.100
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.4.2.200
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.4.2.500
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.4.2.600
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.4.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.4.3.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1..5.100
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.0.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.0.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.0.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1.100
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1.200
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1.300
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.3.000
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.3.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.3.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.3.100
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.4
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.4.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.4.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.5
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.5.200
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.6
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.6.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.6.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.6.4

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.