VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8998

high
Published 2017-02-24 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.2

Description

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server 7.1 could allow an authenticated user with TSM administrator privileges to cause a buffer overflow using a specially crafted SQL query and execute arbitrary code on the server. IBM Reference #: 1998747.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
81%
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 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_manager7.1.7
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

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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