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CVE-2016-5918
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows displays the encrypted Tivoli Storage Manager password in application trace output if the…
Medium4.7EPSS 0.30%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows displays the encrypted Tivoli Storage Manager password in application trace output if the password access option is prompt and the password is changed.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 78% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Weakness
- Obtain Information
- CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
Affected products
IBM Corporation · Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows
- affected 5.3.2.0
- affected 5.3.5.0
- affected 5.4.0.0
- affected 5.4.2.5
- affected 5.5.0.0
- affected 5.5.1.4
- affected 6.3
- affected 6.4
- affected 7.1
References (2)
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21988728 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 92534 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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