VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6111

critical
Published 2017-03-31 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.1

Description

IBM Curam Social Program Management 6.0 and 7.0 are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources. IBM Reference #: 2000833.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
94%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management5.2
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.0
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.4.0
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.4.1
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.4.2
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.4.3
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.4.4
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.4.5
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.4.6
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.4.7
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.4.8
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.5
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.5.0
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.5.1
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.5.2
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.5.3
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.5.4
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.5.5
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.5.6
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.5.7
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.5.8
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.0.5.9
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.1.0.0
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.1.0.1
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.1.0.2
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.1.0.3
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.1.1.0
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.1.1.1
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.1.1.2
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.1.1.3
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.2.0.0
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.2.0.1
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.2.0.2
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management6.2.0.3
ibm ibmcuram_social_program_management7.0.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-611

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

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