CVE-2016-8937

mediumpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.019 · 80 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.90% (80th) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
Is it mine?
67 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1) default authentication protocol is vulnerable to a brute force attack due to disclosing too much information during authentication. An attacker could gain user or administrative access to the TSM server. IBM X-Force ID: 118750.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–critical · 5–9.8

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9
v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9
v3.09criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

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CWE-287USprimary
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affected products (67)

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showing 20 of 67
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also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2017-10-05modified 2026-06-17
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references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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