CVE-2015-6557 is a vulnerability affecting IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases, Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail, and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager. When application tracing is enabled, these products inadvertently expose cleartext passwords within exception messages. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring physical proximity to access the trace output. The primary impact is the disclosure of sensitive information (passwords). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager:3.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_flashcopy_manager:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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