VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-7436

low
Published 2016-01-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
2.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.5

Description

IBM Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) 2.1 before IF14, 2.1.1 before IF22, 2.1.1.2 before IF9, 3.1.0.0 through 3.1.2 as used in Cognos Business Intelligence before 10.2 IF16, and 3.1.2.1 as used in Cognos Business Intelligence before 10.2.1.1 IF12 preserves user permissions across group-add and group-remove operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging administrative changes to group membership.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
27%
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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmtivoli_common_reporting2.1
ibm ibmtivoli_common_reporting2.1.1
ibm ibmtivoli_common_reporting2.1.1.2
ibm ibmtivoli_common_reporting3.1
ibm ibmtivoli_common_reporting3.1.0.1
ibm ibmtivoli_common_reporting3.1.0.2
ibm ibmtivoli_common_reporting3.1.2
ibm ibmtivoli_common_reporting3.1.2.1

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.