CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8980

8.1 HIGH Published 2017-02-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-02-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-611

Description

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 configurations

• ibm license metric tool 9.2.0 • ibm bigfix inventory 9.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness

References