CVE-2017-1794 Privilege escalation in Tivoli Monitoring

What is CVE-2017-1794?

CVE-2017-1794 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Monitoring, published on 19 Sep 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.3 through 6.2.3.5 and 6.3.0 through 6.3.0.7 are vulnerable to both TEPS user privilege escalation and possible denial of service due to unconstrained memory growth. IBM X-Force ID: 137039.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-1794?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Tivoli Monitoring.

How do I fix CVE-2017-1794?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-1794 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-1794 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-1794 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Tivoli Monitoring

• 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-gr52-8x59-f3fp.