🛡️ CVE-2025-0164 — qradar-security-information-and-event-ma

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-0164 is classified as CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. A sensitive resource is assigned permissions that let unintended actors read or modify it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-0164 is recorded against 1 package.

• qradar-security-information-and-event-manager

Timeline and source

Published on 14 September 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.ibm.com

Other advisories for this package

qradar-security-information-and-event-manager has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2026-13477 (4.7 Medium, published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-10025 (8.2 High, published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2024-56462 (7.2 High, published 27 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-1276 (5.4 Medium, published 19 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-15051 (5.4 Medium, published 19 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-13995 (5.0 Medium, published 19 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-36051 (6.2 Medium, published 19 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2024-56464 (2.7 Low, published 9 Dec 2025)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource) in other software:

• CVE-2026-63623 (5.5 Medium, published 10 Aug 2026)
• GHSA-945v-v9p3-v5xw (2.0 Low, published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-13769 (5.5 Medium, published 4 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-68563 (5.5 Medium, published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-64707 (5.5 Medium, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-7594 (8.0 High, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-61892 (8.8 High, published 24 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-16157 (7.8 High, published 22 Jul 2026)

Details

Affected Packages

References