CVE-2015-7450 vulnerability in IBM Products
Published on January 2, 2016
Serialized-object interfaces in certain IBM analytics, business solutions, cognitive, IT infrastructure, and mobile and social products allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, related to the InvokerTransformer class in the Apache Commons Collections library.
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This IBM WebSphere Application Server and Server Hypervisor Edition Code Injection. vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Serialized-object interfaces in certain IBM analytics, business solutions, cognitive, IT infrastructure, and mobile and social products allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by July 10, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2015-7450 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors in an automatable fashion. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Weakness Type
What is a Marshaling, Unmarshaling Vulnerability?
The application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid.
CVE-2015-7450 has been classified to as a Marshaling, Unmarshaling vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2015-7450
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Exploit Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.