VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-7425

critical
Published 2016-02-21 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
10.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

The Data Protection component in the VMware vSphere GUI in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware (aka Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments) 6.3 before 6.3.2.5, 6.4 before 6.4.3.1, and 7.1 before 7.1.4 and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for VMware (aka Spectrum Protect Snapshot) 3.1 before 3.1.1.3, 3.2 before 3.2.0.6, and 4.1 before 4.1.4 allows remote attackers to obtain administrative privileges via a crafted URL that triggers back-end function execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
98%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager_for_vmware3.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager_for_vmware3.1.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager_for_vmware3.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager_for_vmware6.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager_for_vmware6.4
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager_for_vmware6.4.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager_for_vmware6.4.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware4.1.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware4.1.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware4.1.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware4.1.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware6.3.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware6.3.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware6.4.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware7.1.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware7.1.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware7.1.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_for_virtual_environments_data_protection_for_vmware7.1.3

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.