CVE-2016-2998

low
Published 2016-09-01 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
3.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
3.5
VIR risk
3.5

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in IBM Connections 4.0 through CR4, 4.5 through CR5, 5.0 before CR4, and 5.5 before CR1 allows remote authenticated users to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that update data.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
45%
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=swg21988991

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmconnections4.0.0.0
ibmconnections4.5.0.0
ibmconnections5.0.0.0
ibmconnections5.5.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-352

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