CVE-2016-8940: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 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 2017-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.