CVE-2016-8943: IBM Spectrum Control

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.

Affected products

  • IBM Spectrum Control: version 5.2.8 only; version 5.2.9 only; version 5.2.10 only; version 5.2.11 only
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center: version 5.2.0 only; version 5.2.0.0 only; version 5.2.1.0 only; version 5.2.1.1 only; version 5.2.2.0 only; version 5.2.3.0 only; …

Published 2017-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.