CVE-2016-5990

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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 Security Privileged Identity Manager Virtual Appliance allows an authenticated user to upload malicious files that would be automatically executed by the server.

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.securityfocus.com/bid/95199

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996614

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmsecurity_privileged_identity_manager2.0.2
ibm ibmsecurity_privileged_identity_manager2.1

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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