CVE-2016-8940
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.9%
exploitation probability
0.9%top 40% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
IBM Corporation · Tivoli Storage Manager