CVE-2016-6095

critical
Published 2017-02-02 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
5.0
VIR risk
9.8

Description

IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager 2.5 and 2.6 uses an inadequate account lockout setting that could allow a remote attacker to brute force account credentials.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
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=swg21997802

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.5.0
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.5.0.0
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.5.0.1
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.5.0.2
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.5.0.3
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.5.0.4
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.5.0.5
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.5.0.6
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.5.0.7
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.6.0
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.6.0.1
ibmsecurity_key_lifecycle_manager2.6.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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