CVE-2008-5686: IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager

High severity, CVSS 8.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) before 5.1.1.1 IF0006, when its LDAP service is shared with other applications, does not require that an LDAP user be listed in the TPM user records, which allows remote authenticated users to execute SOAP commands that access arbitrary TPM functionality, as demonstrated by running provisioning workflows.

Affected products

• IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager: version 5.1 only; version 5.1.0.2 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 5.1.1.1 only

Published 2008-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.