CVE-2015-7450
IBM WebSphere Application Server and Server Hypervisor Edition: Code Injection.
As of , CVE-2015-7450 in IBM WebSphere Application Server and Server Hypervisor Edition is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.
- Exploited
- Yes: CISA listed it on 10 January 2022
- US federal deadline
- 10 July 2022181 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
- Used in ransomware campaigns
- Not known to CISA
- EPSS score
- 0.98Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS when listed
- Not availableCISA listed it before 4 February 2022, where the EPSS files we read begin.
- Public exploit
- 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry (1 verified)
- Fix
- No vendor link in CISA's entry
What CISA says to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA's required action
What the flaw is
Serialized-object interfaces in certain IBM analytics, business solutions, cognitive, IT infrastructure, and mobile and social products allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands
CISA's description
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.
The CVE record's description, from ibm
- CVE published
- 2 January 2016
- Assigned by
- ibm
- CVSS
- 9.8 Critical (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
- CWE-502
- Deserialization of Untrusted Data
- CWE-94
- Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
- CISA SSVC, exploitation
- active
- CISA SSVC, automatable
- yes
- CISA SSVC, technical impact
- total
Timeline
- The CVE record was published.
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 41613).
- CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- The US federal deadline to fix it.
Public exploits
Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.
- Metasploit: IBM WebSphere RCE Java Deserialization Vulnerabilityexploit module, rank excellent
- Exploit-DB: IBM WebSphere - RCE Java Deserialization (Metasploit)EDB-ID 41613, verified by Exploit-DB, 15 March 2017
Read further
- CVE recordcve.org
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA's catalogcisa.gov
- EPSS for this CVEapi.first.org