CVE-2015-7429 describes a high-severity vulnerability in the Data Protection extension of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for VMware versions prior to 7.1.4 and 4.1.4, respectively. This flaw allows remote authenticated attackers to restore arbitrary virtual machines by accessing the vSphere inventory, leading to potential disclosure of sensitive information. With a CVSS v3 score of 8.5 (High), the attack requires low privileges but has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a complex attack vector. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_for_virtual_environments:7.1:*:*:*:*:vmware:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_snapshot:4.1:*:*:*:*:vmware:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.