CVE-2018-1786: IBM Spectrum Protect

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 dsmc and dsmcad processes incorrectly accumulate TCP/IP sockets in a CLOSE_WAIT state. This can cause TCP/IP resource leakage and may result in a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 148871.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect: from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.6.0
• IBM Spectrum Protect For Virtual Environments Data Protection For Hyper-V: from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.6.0
• IBM Spectrum Protect Manager For Virtual Environments Data Protection For VMware: from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.6.0
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager: from 7.1, up to and including 7.1.8.3
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager For Virtual Environments Data Protection For Hyper-V: from 7.1.0, up to and including 7.1.8.0
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager For Virtual Environments Data Protection For VMware: from 7.1.0, up to and including 7.1.8.3

Published 2018-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.