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CVE-2016-5994
IBM InfoSphere Information Server contains a vulnerability that would allow an authenticated user to browse any file on the engine tier,…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
IBM InfoSphere Information Server contains a vulnerability that would allow an authenticated user to browse any file on the engine tier, and examine its contents.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 33% 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: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Obtain Information
- CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)
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 (3)
- 93557 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1037022 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21992171 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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 .