What is CVE-2015-4959?

CVE-2015-4959 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2016-01-18.

How severe is CVE-2015-4959?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

CVE-2015-4959

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) 6.2.2 before FP16 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2016-01-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (72.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 72nd percentile — 72.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager — versions 6.2.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.securitytracker.com/id/1034697 (vdb-entry)
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (vendor-advisory)
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-4959?: CVE-2015-4959 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2016-01-18.
How severe is CVE-2015-4959?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.