CVE-2026-13473: IBM Storage Protect

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Storage Protect Client 8.1.0.0 through 8.1.27.0, 8.1.27.1, and 8.2.0.0 through 8.2.1.0 IBM Storage Protect is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. A remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the server to crash.

Affected products

• IBM Storage Protect: from 8.1, before 8.2.1.2 (fixed in 8.2.1.2)

Published 2026-07-17. Last modified 2026-08-11.