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CVE-2016-6059

IBM InfoSphere Information Server is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when…

High8.1EPSS 1.5%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
ibm

Description

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2016-6059, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.0High8.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
1.5% · top 25% 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: High 8.1.

Weakness

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

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