CVE-2017-1635 Use after free in Tivoli Monitoring V6

What is CVE-2017-1635?

CVE-2017-1635 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6, published on 13 Dec 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6 6.2.2.x could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free error. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 133243.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-1635?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Tivoli Monitoring.

How do I fix CVE-2017-1635?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-1635 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2017-1635 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-1635 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 2 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-2pv2-hm64-84jm.