CVE-2015-1947

high

Published 2015-12-31 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.4

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.4

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere BigInsights 3.0, 3.0.0.1, 3.0.0.2, and 4.0, when a DB2 database is used, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library that is loaded by a setuid or setgid program.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

72%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	infosphere_biginsights	`3.0.0.0`
ibm	infosphere_biginsights	`3.0.0.1`
ibm	infosphere_biginsights	`3.0.0.2`
ibm	infosphere_biginsights	`4.0.0.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.