CVE-2016-8941 Cross-site request forgery in Spectrum Control Standard Select Edition

What is CVE-2016-8941?

CVE-2016-8941 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Corporation Spectrum Control Standard Select Edition, published on 1 Feb 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to execute malicious and unauthorized actions transmitted from a user that the website trusts.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8941?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Control, Ibm Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.

How do I fix CVE-2016-8941?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-8941 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-8941 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8941 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Corporation Spectrum Control Standard Select Edition

• CVE-2019-4071 Command injection in Spectrum Control Standard Edition Medium 6.8
• CVE-2016-5946 Path traversal in n/a Medium 6.5
• CVE-2019-4137 Cross-site scripting in Spectrum Control Standard Edition Medium 6.1
• CVE-2019-4138 Information disclosure in Spectrum Control Standard Edition Medium 5.9
• CVE-2016-5947 Cross-site request forgery in n/a Medium 5.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-86qj-gcg9-hf8g.