What is CVE-2015-4951?

CVE-2015-4951 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-01-20.

How severe is CVE-2015-4951?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Improper input validation in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

CVE-2015-4951

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.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2016-01-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (71.5th percentile), scored 2026-11-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 71.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager — versions 5.5, 6.1, 6.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

www.securitytracker.com/id/1034692 (vdb-entry)
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-4951?: CVE-2015-4951 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-01-20.
How severe is CVE-2015-4951?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.