CVE-2016-8980

published 2017-02-01

CVE-2016-8980: IBM BigFix Inventory v9 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote…

Priority P3 41 high 8.1 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR L UI N S U C H I N A H

IBM BigFix Inventory v9 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ibm	bigfix_inventory	—	—
ibm	license_metric_tool	—	—
ibm_corporation	bigfix_inventory	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 8.1 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C

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