CVE-2017-1301: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

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

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 could allow a local attacker to launch a symlink attack. IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-archive Client creates temporary files insecurely. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a symbolic link from a temporary file to various files on the system, which could allow the attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the system with elevated privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 125163.

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 2017-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.