CVE-2018-1882: IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In a certain atypical IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 configurations, the node password could be displayed in plain text in the IBM Spectrum Protect client trace file. IBM X-Force ID: 151968.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client: from 7.1.0.0, up to and including 7.1.8.4; from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.6.1
• IBM Spectrum Protect For Virtual Environments: from 7.1.0.0, up to and including 7.1.8.4; from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.6.1; from 7.1.0.0, up to and including 7.1.8.0

Published 2019-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.