CVE-2016-2996

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Published 2016-11-24 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
6.5

Description

IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager 2.0 before 2.0.2 FP8, when Virtual Appliance is used, allows remote authenticated users to append to arbitrary files 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=swg21988706

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmsecurity_privileged_identity_manager2.0.0
ibmsecurity_privileged_identity_manager2.0.1
ibmsecurity_privileged_identity_manager2.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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