CVE-2021-38959: IBM Spss Statistics

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• IBM Spss Statistics: version 24.0.0.0 only; version 25.0.0.0 only; version 26.0.0.0 only; version 27.0.0.0 only; version 27.0.1.0 only; version 28.0.0.0 only

Published 2021-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.