IBM Infosphere BigInsights 4.2.0 and 4.2.5 is vulnerable to link injection.

Published 9 y ago 2017-11-01 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

5.4

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.9%

percentile 59%

Public exploits

none known

IBM Infosphere BigInsights 4.2.0 and 4.2.5 is vulnerable to link injection. By persuading a victim to click on a specially-crafted URL link, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 131396.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.87% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	5.4	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`
NVD	2.0	4.9	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N`

Affected products

IBM BigInsights

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

ibm.com /support/docview.wss?uid=swg22009192 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/131396 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/101588 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-1552
NVD: CVE-2017-1552

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