Arbitrary Command Execution in IBM Analytics and IT Infrastructure Products
CVE-2015-7450

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor: IBM
Status: Tivoli Common Reporting
Vendor: CVE Published:; 2 January 2016

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC🟣 EPSS 97%🦅 CISA Reported

Summary

Certain IBM analytics, business solutions, cognitive, IT infrastructure, and mobile and social products are vulnerable to a security flaw that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This vulnerability arises due to vulnerabilities in the serialized-object interfaces where crafted serialized Java objects can be exploited. The issue is specifically related to the InvokerTransformer class in the Apache Commons Collections library, which can lead to significant security risks if left unpatched.

CISA Reported

CISA provides regional cyber and physical services to support security and resilience across the United States. CISA monitor the most dangerious vulnerabilities and have identifed as being exploited but is not known by the CISA to be used in ransomware campaigns. This is subject to change at pace

The CISA's recommendation is: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2015-7450 - Proof of Concept