Information disclosure in IBM Spectrum Protect Server

1) Information disclosure

EUVDB-ID: #VU15780

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 3.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1788

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Information exposure

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a local high-privileged attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to information exposure when tracing is enabled. A local attacker can view some passwords that are displayed in the IBM Spectrum Protect server trace file.

Mitigation

The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 7.1.8.100, 8.1.6.

Vulnerable software versions

Spectrum Protect Server: 7.1 - 8.1.5

External links

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10730357

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

The attacker would have to login to the system and perform certain actions in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.