VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0321

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Published 2016-07-17 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
6.2

Description

IBM Personal Communications (aka PCOMM) 6.x before 6.0.17 and 12.x before 12.0.0.1 does not properly restrict credential extraction, which allows local users to discover passwords by leveraging access to the victim account and executing a PowerShell script.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
62%
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=swg21981692

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmpersonal_communications12.0.0
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.0
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.1
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.2
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.3
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.4
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.5
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.6
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.7
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.8
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.9
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.10
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.11
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.12
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.13
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.14
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.15
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.16

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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