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 attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.1 High

Status

Modified - psirt@us.ibm.com

Published

2017-02-01

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-611

Affected products

• Bigfix Inventory (Ibm)
• License Metric Tool (Ibm)
• Bigfix Inventory (Ibm Corporation)

References

• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995013
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95141