CVE-2018-2025: IBM Spectrum Protect

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client and IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 7.1 and 8.1 creates directories/files in the CIT sub directory that are read/writable by everyone. IBM X-Force ID: 155551.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect: from 7.1.0.0, up to and including 7.1.8.5; from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.8.0
• IBM Spectrum Protect For Virtual Environments: from 7.1.0.0, up to and including 7.1.8.5; from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.8.0

Published 2019-11-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.