VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8939

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Published 2017-06-07 · 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 (IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1) clients/agents store password information in the Windows Registry in a manner which can be compromised. IBM X-Force ID: 118790.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
—

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_manager6.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.4
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.5
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.5.4
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.5.5
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.5.6
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.2.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.2.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.2.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.2.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.2.4
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.0.5
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.0.15
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.0.17
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.1.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.2.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.4
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.5
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.5.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.6
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.6.100
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_manager7.1.7
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.7.100
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.7.200
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager8.1.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager8.1.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager8.1.1.100

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.