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CVE-2016-2908
IBM Single Sign On for Bluemix could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a XML external entity (XXE) error…
Critical9.1EPSS 3.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
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- ibm
Description
IBM Single Sign On for Bluemix could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a XML external entity (XXE) error when processing XML data by the XML parser. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the system or cause a denial of service.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Weakness
- Denial of Service
- CWE-611 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
IBM Corporation · Access Manager
- affected 9.0
- affected 9.0.0.1
- affected 9.0.1
- affected 7.0.0
- affected 8.0.0
- affected 8.0.0.1
- affected 8.0.0.2
- affected 8.0.0.3
- affected 8.0.0.4
- affected 8.0.0.5
- affected 8.0.1
- affected 8.0.1.2
- affected 8.0.1.3
- affected 8.0.1.4
- affected 9.0.0
- affected 9.0.1.0
References (3)
- 95295 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995531 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1038506 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .