CVE-2017-1183 SQL injection in Tivoli Monitoring V6

What is CVE-2017-1183?

CVE-2017-1183 is a high-severity SQL 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 modify SQL commands to the Portal Server, when default client-server communications, HTTP, are being used. IBM X-Force ID: 123494.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-1183?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Tivoli Monitoring.

How do I fix CVE-2017-1183?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-1183 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.

Is CVE-2017-1183 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-1183 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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-66vv-9pj3-6mfw.