Security Bulletin
Summary
Harmful code may be executed because of privilege escalation coverage gap in IBM SPSS Statistics.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2015-7489
DESCRIPTION: IBM SPSS Statistics uses python scripts that have write permissions to Everyone. A local user can add malicious OS commands to the python code. These command will later be executed in case another user (for example an administrator) opens SPSS and uses that module.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108785 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0.0.2
IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0.0.2
Remediation/Fixes
Product | VRMF | Remediation |
IBM SPSS Statistics | 22.0.0.2 | Install interim fix 22.0.0.2-10 22.0-IM-S22STAT-AIX-FP002-IF010 22.0-IM-S22STAT-Solaris-FP002-IF010 22.0-IM-S22STAT-MAC-FP002-IF010 22.0-IM-S22STAT-Linux8664-FP002-IF010 22.0-IM-S22STAT-zLinux-FP002-IF010 |
IBM SPSS Statistics | 23.0.0.2 | Install interim fix 23.0.0.2-7 23.0-IM-S23STAT-AIX-FP002-IF007 23.0-IM-S23STAT-WIN-FP002-IF007 23.0-IM-S23STAT-Solaris-FP002-IF007 23.0-IM-S23STAT-Linux8664-FP002-IF007 23.0-IM-S23STAT-MAC-FP002-IF007 23.0-IM-S23STAT-zLinux-FP002-IF007 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Dan Gurfinkel, Comsec Global Consulting
Change History
23 December 2015: Original version published
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Document Information
Modified date:
16 April 2020
UID
swg21973502