VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5939

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Published 2017-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
6.3

Description

IBM Kenexa LMS on Cloud is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
73%
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=swg21992129

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmkenexa_lms_on_cloud4.1
ibm ibmkenexa_lms_on_cloud4.2
ibm ibmkenexa_lms_on_cloud4.2.2
ibm ibmkenexa_lms_on_cloud4.2.3
ibm ibmkenexa_lms_on_cloud4.2.4
ibm ibmkenexa_lms_on_cloud5.0
ibm ibmkenexa_lms_on_cloud5.1
ibm ibmkenexa_lms_on_cloud5.2

References

CWEs

CWE-89

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