CVE-2015-1889: IBM InfoSphere BigInsights

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Big SQL component in IBM InfoSphere BigInsights 3.0 through 3.0.0.2 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended HDFS data-access restrictions via (1) a crafted CREATE HADOOP TABLE statement referencing the data of an arbitrary user or (2) an import of a certain Hive table definition with the HCAT_SYNC_OBJECTS procedure.

Affected products

• IBM InfoSphere BigInsights: version 3.0.0.0 only; version 3.0.0.1 only; version 3.0.0.2 only

Published 2015-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.