CVE-2017-1182 Command injection in Tivoli Monitoring V6

What is CVE-2017-1182?

CVE-2017-1182 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6, published on 14 Jul 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Portal v6 could allow a local (network adjacent) attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, when default client-server default communications, HTTP, are being used. IBM X-Force ID: 123493.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-1182?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Tivoli Monitoring.

How do I fix CVE-2017-1182?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-1182 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2017-1182 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-1182 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6

• CVE-2015-7411 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.9
• CVE-2025-3357 IBM Tivoli Monitoring code execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-1789 Code injection in Tivoli Monitoring V6 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-3356 IBM Tivoli Monitoring is vulnerable to unauthenticated file read and write operations High 8.6
• CVE-2015-5003 Command injection in n/a High 8.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-p2fv-2h5q-jvfw.