VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2989

medium
Published 2016-08-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
5.8
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Open redirect vulnerability in the Connections Portlets component 5.x before 5.0.2 for IBM WebSphere Portal allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via unspecified vectors.

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=swg21986393

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmconnections_portlets5.0

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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