VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-4927

high
Published 2015-11-04 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.2

Description

The Reporting and Monitoring component in Tivoli Monitoring in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 6.3 before 6.3.6 and 7.1 before 7.1.3 on Linux and AIX uses world-writable permissions for unspecified files, which allows local users to gain privileges by writing to a file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.3
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.4
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.5
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager6.3.5.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager7.1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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