CVE-2016-5971

CVSS V2 Medium 5.5 CVSS V3 High 7.1
Description
IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager (ISPIM) Virtual Appliance 2.x before 2.0.2 FP8 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-5971
  • Assigner
  • psirt@us.ibm.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2016-09-26T04:59:25
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2016-11-28T20:30:15
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-200 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:security_privileged_identity_manager_virtual_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.0.2
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8
  • Impact Score
  • 4.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • LOW
  • Base Score
  • 7.1
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 4.2
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21989205 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93081
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5971
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5971
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 10:04:12 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 11:22:22 2016-09-26T04:59Z 2016-09-26T04:59:25 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 11:22:22 2016-11-28T20:30:15 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 11:22:22 Modified Vulnerability Status updated