VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2961

medium
Published 2016-07-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

The integration server in IBM Integration Bus 9 before 9.0.0.6 and 10 before 10.0.0.5 and WebSphere Message Broker 8 before 8.0.0.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive Tomcat version information by sending a malformed POST request and then reading the Java stack trace.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
63%
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 ibmintegration_bus9.0
ibm ibmintegration_bus9.0.0.1
ibm ibmintegration_bus9.0.0.2
ibm ibmintegration_bus9.0.0.3
ibm ibmintegration_bus9.0.0.4
ibm ibmintegration_bus9.0.0.5
ibm ibmintegration_bus10.0
ibm ibmintegration_bus10.0.0.1
ibm ibmintegration_bus10.0.0.2
ibm ibmintegration_bus10.0.0.3
ibm ibmintegration_bus10.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0.0.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0.0.7

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.