CVE-2018-1987

HIGH 7.8CVE-2018-1987 · Published 02/08/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-1987 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting data protection (ibm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.31%, higher than 23.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
data protection ibm	`≥ 7.1.3.0, ≤ 7.1.3.1≥ 8.1.0.0, ≤ 8.1.4.0≥ 8.1.0.0, ≤ 8.1.6.0`	No fix yet

Description

IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning 7.1 and 8.1, if tracing is activated, the IBM Spectrum Protect node password may be displayed in plain text in the ERP trace file. IBM X-Force ID: 154280.

References

ibm.com/support/docview.wss · Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154280 · VDB Entry

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