CVE-2015-2009

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-03-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the xmlrpc.cgi service in IBM QRadar SIEM 7.1 before MR2 Patch 11 Interim Fix 02 and 7.2.x before 7.2.5 Patch 4 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that insert XSS sequences via vectors related to webmin. IBM X-Force ID: 103921.

Affected products

IBM QRadar SIEM: from 7.2.0 before 7.2.5; 7.1.0, 7.1.0-mr1, 7.1.0-mr2, 7.2.5-patch1, 7.2.5-patch2, 7.2.5-patch3 — fixed in 7.2.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: IBM QRadar SIEM 7.2.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21965821
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21965821

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