CVE-2015-8530: IBM Spss Statistics

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Initialize function in an ActiveX control in IBM SPSS Statistics 19 and 20 before 20.0.0.2-IF0008, 21 before 21.0.0.2-IF0010, 22 before 22.0.0.2-IF0011, 23 before 23.0.0.3-IF0001, and 24 before 24.0.0.0-IF0003 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long argument.

Affected products

• IBM Spss Statistics: from 19.0.0.0, up to and including 19.0.0.2; from 20.0.0.0, before 20.0.0.2 (fixed in 20.0.0.2); from 21.0.0.0, before 21.0.0.2 (fixed in 21.0.0.2); from 22.0.0.0, before 22.0.0.2 (fixed in 22.0.0.2); from 23.0.0.0, before 23.0.0.3 (fixed in 23.0.0.3); version 24.0.0.0 only

Published 2016-05-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.