CVE-2016-8939: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1) clients/agents store password information in the Windows Registry in a manner which can be compromised. IBM X-Force ID: 118790.

Affected products

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager: version 6.1 only; version 6.1.0 only; version 6.1.1 only; version 6.1.2 only; version 6.1.3 only; version 6.1.4 only; …

Published 2017-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.