VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8933

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Published 2017-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
6.5

Description

IBM Kenexa LMS on Cloud could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing dot dot sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
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=swg21992072

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

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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