VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0306

medium
Published 2016-05-17 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.0 before 7.0.0.41, 8.0 before 8.0.0.13, and 8.5 before 8.5.5.10, when FIPS 140-2 is enabled, misconfigures TLS, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.13
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.15
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.17
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.19
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.21
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.23
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.25
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.27
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.29
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.31
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.33
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.35
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.37
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.39
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.10
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.12
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.9

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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