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CVE-2018-1987
IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning 7.1 and 8.1, if tracing is activated, the IBM Spectrum Protect node password may be…
Medium5.1EPSS 0.31%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning 7.1 and 8.1, if tracing is activated, the IBM Spectrum Protect node password may be displayed in plain text in the ERP trace file. IBM X-Force ID: 154280.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.1 | CVSS:3.0/PR:N/S:U/AC:H/I:N/AV:L/UI:N/C:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Weakness
- Obtain Information
- CWE-287 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-287 and its CVEs
Affected products
IBM · Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning
- affected 7.1
- affected 8.1
References (2)
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10883782 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ibm-tivoli-cve20181987-info-disc (154280) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-1987)Record last updated .