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Security Bulletin: TS4500 Tape Library addresses security vulnerability CVE-2025-36061

Security Bulletin


Summary

The Web UI allowed an authenticated user with administrative privileges to generate a large number of email notifications by submitting multiple user creation requests, potentially resulting in email flooding and impacting the readability and usability of recipients' mailboxes. The issue has been resolved by preventing excessive duplicate notification emails from being generated.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-36061
DESCRIPTION:   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.
CWE:   CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS Source:   IBM
CVSS Base score:   6.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
Storage TS4500 Library1.1.1.6 - 1.12.0.3

Remediation/Fixes

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/. 
 
All future releases will include the fix for this vulnerability.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

14 Oct 2026: Initial Publication

*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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
14 October 2026

Initial Publish date:
14 October 2026

UID

ibm17292612