CVE-2019-4236: IBM Spectrum Protect

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

A IBM Spectrum Protect 7.l client backup or archive operation running for an HP-UX VxFS object is silently skipping Access Control List (ACL) entries from backup or archive if there are more than twelve ACL entries associated with the object in total. As a result, it could allow a local attacker to restore or retrieve the object with incorrect ACL entries. IBM X-Force ID: 159418.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect: from 7.1.0.0, up to and including 7.1.8.5

Published 2019-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.