CVE-2014-6092: IBM Curam Social Program Management

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Curam Social Program Management (SPM) 5.2 before SP6 EP6, 6.0 SP2 before EP26, 6.0.4 before 6.0.4.6, and 6.0.5 before 6.0.5.6 requires failed-login handling for web-service accounts to have the same lockout policy as for standard user accounts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (web-service outage) by making many login attempts with a valid caseworker account name.

Affected products

  • IBM Curam Social Program Management: up to and including 5.2; version 6.0.4.0 only; version 6.0.4.1 only; version 6.0.4.2 only; version 6.0.4.3 only; version 6.0.4.4 only; …

Published 2015-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.