CVE-2016-6044 Missing authorization in Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition

What is CVE-2016-6044?

CVE-2016-6044 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition, published on 1 Feb 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center could allow an authenticated attacker to enable or disable the application's REST API, which may let the attacker violate security policy.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6044?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Tivoli Storage Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6044?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-6044 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2016-6044 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6044 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition

• CVE-2009-3854 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1178 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-4563 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-5855 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2016-8937 Information disclosure in Spectrum Protect Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-35jh-78c5-6rfj.