VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8940

high
Published 2017-03-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
8.8

Description

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect) 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, and 7.1 does not perform sufficient authority checking on SQL queries. As a result, an attacker is able to submit SQL queries that access database tables that are not intended for access or use by administrators. The access of these product specific database tables may allow access to passwords or other sensitive information for the product. IBM Reference #: 1998946.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
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=swg21998946

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.0
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.1
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.2
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.3
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.4
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.5
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.5.4
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.5.5
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.1.5.6
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.2.0
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.2.1
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.2.2
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.2.3
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.2.4
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.0.5
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.0.15
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.0.17
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.1
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.1.2
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.2.2
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.3
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.4
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.5
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.5.1
ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.6
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1..5.100
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.0.1
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.0.2
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.0.3
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1.1
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1.2
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1.100
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1.200
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1.300
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.3
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.3.000
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.3.1
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.3.2
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.3.100
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.4
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.4.1
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.4.2
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.5
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.5.200
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.6
ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.7

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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