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CVE-2016-5984
IBM InfoSphere Information Server is vulnerable to cross-frame scripting, caused by insufficient HTML iframe protection. A remote attacker…
Medium6.1EPSS 0.85%
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- ibm
Description
IBM InfoSphere Information Server is vulnerable to cross-frame scripting, caused by insufficient HTML iframe protection. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted URL to navigate to a web page the attacker controls. An attacker could use this vulnerability to conduct clickjacking or other client-side browser attacks.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.85% · top 42% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
- Cross-Site Scripting
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
Affected products
IBM Corporation · InfoSphere Information Server
- affected 8.1
- affected 8.5
- affected 8.0
- affected 8.5.0.1
- affected 8.7
- affected 9.1
- affected 8.0.1
- affected 10.0
- affected 11.3
- affected 10
- affected 11.3.0.0
- affected 11.3.1.0
- affected 11.5
References (2)
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21991682 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 95106 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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)
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