VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6042

high
Published 2017-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.3

Description

IBM AppScan Enterprise Edition could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper handling of objects in memory. By persuading a victim to open specially-crafted content, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system in the same context as the victim.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
72%
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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.0.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.0.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.1.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.1.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.2.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.2.1
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.3.0
ibm ibmsecurity_appscan9.0.3.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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