CVE-2025-36061 PUBLISHED

TS4500 Tape Library Denial of Service

Assigner: ibm
Reserved: 15.04.2025 Published: 19.10.2026 Updated: 20.10.2026

IBM Storage TS4500 Library 1.1.1.6 through 1.12.0.3 IBM Diamondback Tape Library and IBM Storage TS4500 Library could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service using specially crafted SMTP requests that would consume excessive amounts of system resources.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.5

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	IBM
Product	Storage TS4500 Library
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 1.1.1.6 to 1.12.0.3 (incl.)

Solutions

For the 1.12.0 release, upgrade to firmware version 1.12.0.4 Fix Pack or later, available from IBM Fix Central http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ .

All future releases will include the fix for this vulnerability.

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7292612

Problem Types

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE