02 Records
FEED: ACQUIRING
01 RecordSTATE: PUBLISHED
02 Description
CNA: ibmHardcoded credential in the IBM Storage Protect Snapshot For Windows leads to unauthorized access to system
03 Exploitation and scoring
SRC: CISA, FIRST, NVD, RED HAT- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
CISA publishes the decision points, not a final SSVC decision. The decision also depends on mission and well-being impact, which is a property of your deployment rather than of the vulnerability.- EPSS probability
- 0.63% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Ranks above 47.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Undergoing Analysis. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-26.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
SCHEMA: 5.2
- Published
- 2026-06-22 13:43Z2 MO AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-06-25 13:46Z2 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-06-18
- Assigning CNA
- ibm
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 9.1)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-798Use of Hard-coded CredentialsBase
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 535e24424a50e2ea0ce87365209f15f75376de0b7b81ba1d5e1801f6df2ac932
05 Affected products
PAIRS: 2VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
SRC: CNA
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
ProductFixing levelPlatformsLink to fix and instructionsIBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client8.2.1.1Windows https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7267111
Currently, the vulnerability has been addressed on the Windows platform through an iFix release.
A hardcoded password present in the source code of IBM Storage Protect Snapshot For Windows, which led to a security vulnerability, has been resolved in this release.
For other platforms (AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris), the hardcoded password still exists in the code; however, it is not actively used and is only identified during static code scans. This issue has been assessed as low severity, and separate PVRs have been created to track it.