CVE-2015-7442

high
Published 2016-01-02 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.0

Description

consoleinst.sh in IBM Installation Manager before 1.7.4.4 and 1.8.x before 1.8.4 and Packaging Utility before 1.7.4.4 and 1.8.x before 1.8.4 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program that is located in /tmp with a name based on a predicted PID value.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ 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 ibminstallation_manager1.7.4.3
ibm ibminstallation_manager1.8.0.0
ibm ibminstallation_manager1.8.1.0
ibm ibminstallation_manager1.8.2.0
ibm ibminstallation_manager1.8.2.1
ibm ibminstallation_manager1.8.3.0
ibm ibmpackaging_utility{"endIncluding":"1.7.4.3"}
ibm ibmpackaging_utility1.8.0.0
ibm ibmpackaging_utility1.8.1.0
ibm ibmpackaging_utility1.8.2.0
ibm ibmpackaging_utility1.8.2.1
ibm ibmpackaging_utility1.8.3.0

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.