Security Advisory

CVE-2018-1447

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-04-04 18:00:00

Last updated 2024-09-17 01:50:34

Assigner ibm

State PUBLISHED

Description

The GSKit (IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 7.2) and (IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot 4.1.3, 4.1.4, and 4.1.6) CMS KDB logic fails to salt the hash function resulting in weaker than expected protection of passwords. A weak password may be recovered. Note: After update the customer should change password to ensure the new password is stored more securely. Products should encourage customers to take this step as a high priority action. IBM X-Force ID: 139972.

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