CVE-2021-29672: IBM Spectrum Protect Client

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

IBM Spectrum Protect Client 8.1.0.0-8 through 1.11.0 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when processing the current locale settings. A local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges or cause the application to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 199479

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect Client: from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.11.0
• IBM Spectrum Protect For Space Management: from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.11.0

Published 2021-04-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.