VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8929

medium
Published 2017-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
5.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.4

Description

IBM Kenexa LMS on Cloud is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
64%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmkenexa_lms4.1
ibm ibmkenexa_lms4.2
ibm ibmkenexa_lms4.2.2
ibm ibmkenexa_lms4.2.3
ibm ibmkenexa_lms4.2.4
ibm ibmkenexa_lms5.0
ibm ibmkenexa_lms5.1
ibm ibmkenexa_lms5.2

References

CWEs

CWE-89

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

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