VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5946

medium
Published 2016-09-26 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Control (formerly Tivoli Storage Productivity Center) 5.2.x before 5.2.11 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a URL.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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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 ibmspectrum_control5.2.8
ibm ibmspectrum_control5.2.9
ibm ibmspectrum_control5.2.10
ibm ibmspectrum_control5.2.10.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.1.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.4
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.4.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.5
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.5.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.6
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.7
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_productivity_center5.2.7.1

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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