Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD) in the client in IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly Tivoli Storage Manager) 5.5 and 6.x before 6.3.2.5, 6.4 before…

published 2016-01-20 10y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-4968

cvss: 5.3; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits: 0; none known

Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD) in the client in IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly Tivoli Storage Manager) 5.5 and 6.x before 6.3.2.5, 6.4 before 6.4.3.1, and 7.1 before 7.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted Web client URL.

Patch / fix

links 1

www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973484 advisory

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Exploit prediction

1.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	5.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

www-01.ibm.com /support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973484
patch, vendor-advisory
securitytracker.com /id/1034692
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2015-4951
NVD CVE-2015-4951

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