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CVE-2018-1787 — IBM Spectrum Protect 7

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 is affected by a password exposure vulnerability caused by insecure file permissions. IBM X-Force ID: 148872.

CVSS

5.1 MEDIUM

EPSS

0.03% (top 90.70%)

CWE

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Published

2019-04-08T14:50:37.708Z

Last modified

2024-09-16T21:08:25.633Z

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/C:H/AC:H/I:N/PR:N/A:N/AV:L/UI:N/S:U/RC:C/RL:O/E:U

01What is this vulnerability?

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 is affected by a password exposure vulnerability caused by insecure file permissions. IBM X-Force ID: 148872.

Vendor	Product	Versions
IBM	Spectrum Protect	7.1, 8.1

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

www.ibm.com — http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10869602
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com — https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148872

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