CVE-2020-28198: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The 'id' parameter of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5 Release 2 (Command Line Administrative Interface, dsmadmc.exe) is vulnerable to an exploitable stack buffer overflow. Note: the vulnerability can be exploited when it is used in "interactive" mode while, cause of a max number characters limitation, it cannot be exploited in batch or command line usage (e.g. dsmadmc.exe -id=username -password=pwd). NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

Affected products

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager: version 5.2.0.1 only

Published 2021-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.