{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-38959 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-38959 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2021-38959 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in IBM SPSS Statistics, published on 17 Nov 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-38959 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-38959 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in IBM SPSS Statistics, published on 17 Nov 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-38959 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: IBM SPSS Statistics. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38959/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38959/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-38959","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38959/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-38959","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-rcm8-2mrf-x3cc"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"IBM SPSS Statistics","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Local attackers can write arbitrary files to protected directories, causing denial of service in IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"ibm","cpe":[{"product":"spss_statistics","vendor":"ibm"}],"cvss":{"score":6.2,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.0/S:U/PR:N/AV:L/I:N/A:H/C:N/UI:N/AC:L/E:U/RC:C/RL:O","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-787","name":"Out-of-bounds Write"}],"description":"IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows 24.0, 25.0, 26.0, 27.0, 27.0.1, and 28.0 could allow a local user to cause a denial of service by writing arbitrary files to admin protected directories on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 212046.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Path traversal in SPSS Statistics","id":"CVE-2021-38959","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Information disclosure in HMC","id":"CVE-2021-38960"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Race condition in MQ Appliance","id":"CVE-2021-38958"},"products":["SPSS Statistics"],"published":"2021-11-17","related":[{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-7489","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-01-01"},{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-0140","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2015-05-25"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-8530","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-05-14"},{"cvss_score":6.2,"headline":"IBM SPSS Statistics denial of service","id":"CVE-2022-43855","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-03-08"},{"cvss_score":5.9,"headline":"IBM SPSS Statistics information disclosure","id":"CVE-2024-31896","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-25"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-17","vendors":["IBM"]},"summary":"Local attackers can write arbitrary files to protected directories, causing denial of service in IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38959/"}