VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5986

high
Published 2016-10-01 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.x before 7.0.0.43, 8.0.x before 8.0.0.13, 8.5.x before 8.5.5.11, 9.0.x before 9.0.0.2, and Liberty before 16.0.0.3 mishandles responses, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.10
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.12
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.13
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.14
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.15
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.16
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.17
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.18
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.19
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.21
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.22
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.23
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.24
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.25
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.27
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.28
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.29
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.31
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.32
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.33
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.34
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.35
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.36
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.37
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.38
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.39
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.41
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.10
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.12
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server9.0.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.10
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server9.0.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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