IBM » Tivoli Storage Manager : Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs, (Gain Privilege)

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.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center could allow an authenticated attacker to enable or disable the application's REST API, which may let the attacker violate security policy.

The (1) Java GUI and (2) Web GUI components in the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup-Archive client 5.4 and 5.5 before 5.5.4.4 on AIX, Linux, and Solaris; 5.4.x and 5.5.x on Windows and z/OS; 6.1 before 6.1.5.7 on z/OS; 6.1 and 6.2 before 6.2.5.2 on Windows, before 6.2.5.3 on AIX and Linux x86, and before 6.2.5.4 on Linux Z and Solaris; 6.3 before 6.3.2.1 on AIX, before 6.3.2.2 on Windows, and before 6.3.2.3 on Linux; 6.4 before 6.4.2.1; and 7.1 before 7.1.1 in IBM TSM for Mail, when the Data Protection for Lotus Domino component is used, allow local users to bypass authentication and restore a Domino database or transaction-log backup via unspecified vectors.

The server in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 5.1.x, 5.2.x before 5.2.1.2, and 6.x before 6.1 does not require credentials to observe the server console in some circumstances, which allows remote authenticated administrators to monitor server operations by establishing a console mode session, related to "session exposure."