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CVE-2016-8937
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-10-05T17:29:00.217 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:55:12.737

Summary

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1) default authentication protocol is vulnerable to a brute force attack due to disclosing too much information during authentication. An attacker could gain user or administrative access to the TSM server. IBM X-Force ID: 118750.

Affected products

ibm — tivoli_storage_manager

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References

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