CVE-2018-1447: IBM Spectrum Protect For Space Management

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The GSKit (IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 7.2) and (IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot 4.1.3, 4.1.4, and 4.1.6) CMS KDB logic fails to salt the hash function resulting in weaker than expected protection of passwords. A weak password may be recovered. Note: After update the customer should change password to ensure the new password is stored more securely. Products should encourage customers to take this step as a high priority action. IBM X-Force ID: 139972.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect For Space Management: from 7.1.0.0, up to and including 7.1.8.1; from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.4.0
• IBM Spectrum Protect For Virtual Environments: from 7.1.0.0, up to and including 7.1.8.0; from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.4.0
• IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot: from 4.1.0.0, up to and including 4.1.6.3

Published 2018-04-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.