CVE-2016-8924

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Published 2017-04-26 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.6

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.6

Description

IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.1, 7.5 and 7.6 could allow a remote attacker to hijack a user's session, caused by the failure to invalidate an existing session identifier. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain access to another user's session. IBM X-Force ID: 118537.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

66%

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	maximo_asset_management	`7.1`
ibm	maximo_asset_management	`7.5`
ibm	maximo_asset_management	`7.6`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

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