IBM Support

Security Bulletin: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the Data Protection for VMware GUI (CVE-2013-6713)

Security Bulletin


Summary

In customer environments that utilize VMware restricted users, users of the Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware GUI can back up and restore VMs that they are not authorized to access.

Vulnerability Details

CVE ID: CVE-2013-6713

DESCRIPTION:

In customer environments that utilize VMware restricted users, users of the Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware GUI can back up and restore VMs that they are not authorized to access, enabling them to perform the following actions, regardless of their specific VMware level of authorization:

  • access all data within the VMs that have been previously backed up and also back up and access data that has not previously been backed up
  • spawn multiple restores which could exhaust VMware storage



CVSS:

CVSS Base Score: 4.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89055
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

Only the Data Protection for VMware component of the following product and release levels is affected:

  • Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments 6.3, 6.4, and 7.1

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to apply the fix associated with the release of the product used in your environment.

Product: ComponentVMRF of First FixPlatformRemediation / Link to First Fix
Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware 7.1.0.2
Windows
Linux		http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24037086
Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware6.4.2.0

Windows
Linux		http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24039356
Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware6.3.2.1Windows
Linux		http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24037601

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

Get Notified about Future Security Bulletins

Subscribe to My Notifications to be notified of important product support alerts like this.

References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
On-line Calculator v2

Off

Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

None

Change History

23 May 2014: Original copy published
16 January 2017: Fixed links to fixes

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

[{"Product":{"code":"SS8TDQ","label":"Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Component":"Data Protection for VMware","Platform":[{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"},{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"6.3;6.4;7.1","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB26","label":"Storage"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21673051

Page Feedback