What is CVE-2015-4991?

CVE-2015-4991 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spss Modeler, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.0/10. Published 2016-02-15.

How severe is CVE-2015-4991?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.0 out of 10.

Information disclosure in IBM Spss Modeler

CVE-2015-4991

IBM SPSS Modeler 14.2 through FP3 IF027, 15 through FP3 IF015, 16 through FP2 IF012, 17 through FP1 IF018, and 17.1 through IF008 includes unspecified cleartext data in memory dumps, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a dump file.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2016-02-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (20.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 20.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Spss Modeler — versions 14.2.0.0, 14.2.0.1, 14.2.0.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (Vendor Advisory)
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-4991?: CVE-2015-4991 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spss Modeler, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.0/10. Published 2016-02-15.
How severe is CVE-2015-4991?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.0 out of 10.