VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-3027

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Published 2017-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
5.5
VIR risk
6.5

Description

IBM Security Access Manager for Web is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources.

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.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21994440

References

CWEs

CWE-611

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