CVE-2016-2908

CriticalCVSS 9.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-611

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 1, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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