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CVE-2020-28198

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

The 'id' parameter of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5 Release 2 (Command Line Administrative Interface, dsmadmc.exe) is vulnerable to an exploitable stack buffer overflow. Note: the vulnerability can be exploited when it is used in "interactive" mode while, cause of a max number characters limitation, it cannot be exploited in batch or command line usage (e.g. dsmadmc.exe -id=username -password=pwd). NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

Affected products

• IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager: 5.2.0.1

References

• https://github.com/VoidSec/Exploit-Development/blob/master/windows/x86/local/IBM_ITSM_Administrator_Client_v.5.2.0.1/IBM_TSM_v.5.2.0.1_exploit.py
• https://voidsec.com/tivoli-madness/#IBM_Tivoli_Storage_Manager
• https://github.com/VoidSec/Exploit-Development/blob/master/windows/x86/local/IBM_ITSM_Administrator_Client_v.5.2.0.1/IBM_TSM_v.5.2.0.1_exploit.py
• https://voidsec.com/tivoli-madness/#IBM_Tivoli_Storage_Manager

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