CVE-2016-8940

mediumpriority · track · 35EPSS 0.009 · 61 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.94% (61st) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

104 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect) 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, and 7.1 does not perform sufficient authority checking on SQL queries. As a result, an attacker is able to submit SQL queries that access database tables that are not intended for access or use by administrators. The access of these product specific database tables may allow access to passwords or other sensitive information for the product. IBM Reference #: 1998946.

cvss

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

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4–8.8

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-200USprimary

affected products (104)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.3.4enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.4 Clientenisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 4.2.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 4.2.4enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.5.7enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.3.0enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 6.4enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 6.0enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.2 Clientenisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.4.2.4enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.3.6.2enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.2.5.2enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.3.2.4enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 4.2.3enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.3.6.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 6.2enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 6.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 4.2enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.2.5.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.1.8enisa_euvdEU

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-03-07modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

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