CVE-2016-5927: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager For Space Management

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management (aka Spectrum Protect for Space Management) 6.3.x before 6.3.2.6, 6.4.x before 6.4.3.3, and 7.1.x before 7.1.6, when certain dsmsetpw tracing is configured, allows local users to discover an encrypted password by reading application-trace output.

Affected products

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager For Space Management: version 6.3.0 only; version 6.3.2 only; version 6.4.0 only; version 6.4.0.0 only; version 6.4.1 only; version 6.4.2 only; …

Published 2016-09-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.