CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5971

7.1 HIGH Published 2016-09-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-09-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-200, CWE-611

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.

Affected configurations

• ibm security privileged identity manager virtual appliance (<= 2.0.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness

References