CVE-2018-1987: IBM Data Protection

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning 7.1 and 8.1, if tracing is activated, the IBM Spectrum Protect node password may be displayed in plain text in the ERP trace file. IBM X-Force ID: 154280.

Affected products

• IBM Data Protection: from 7.1.3.0, up to and including 7.1.3.1; from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.4.0; from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.6.0

Published 2019-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.