CVE-2018-2025 Misconfiguration in Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client

What is CVE-2018-2025?

CVE-2018-2025 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client, published on 25 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client and IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 7.1 and 8.1 creates directories/files in the CIT sub directory that are read/writable by everyone. IBM X-Force ID: 155551.

Weakness: CWE-276

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-2025?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Protect, Ibm Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments.

How do I fix CVE-2018-2025?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-2025 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-2025 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-2025 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client

• CVE-2020-4415 Memory corruption in Spectrum Protect Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4210 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4211 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4212 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4213 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-9v97-r4gf-gp7x.