VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0288

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Published 2016-06-01 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
6.5

Description

IBM Security AppScan Standard 8.7.x, 8.8.x, and 9.x before 9.0.3.2 and Security AppScan Enterprise allow remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21980055

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.7.0.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.7.0.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan8.8.0.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.0.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.0.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.1.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.1.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.2.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.2.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.3.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.3.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.