CVE-2016-2972

high
Published 2017-08-29 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

IBM Sametime Meeting Server 8.5.2 and 9.0 could store credentials of the Sametime Meetings user in the local cache of their browser which could be accessed by a local user. IBM X-Force ID: 113855.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ 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 ibmsametime8.5.2.0
ibm ibmsametime8.5.2.1
ibm ibmsametime9.0.0.0
ibm ibmsametime9.0.0.1
ibm ibmsametime9.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-255

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

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