VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8953

medium
Published 2017-07-12 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
5.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.4

Description

IBM Emptoris Sourcing 9.5.x through 10.1.x could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, using an open redirect attack. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the URL displayed to redirect a user to a malicious Web site that would appear to be trusted. This could allow the attacker to obtain highly sensitive information or conduct further attacks against the victim. IBM X-Force ID: 118840.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
64%
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 ibmemptoris_sourcing9.5
ibm ibmemptoris_sourcing9.5.0.1
ibm ibmemptoris_sourcing9.5.1.1
ibm ibmemptoris_sourcing9.5.1.2
ibm ibmemptoris_sourcing9.5.1.3
ibm ibmemptoris_sourcing10.0.0
ibm ibmemptoris_sourcing10.0.1
ibm ibmemptoris_sourcing10.0.2
ibm ibmemptoris_sourcing10.0.4
ibm ibmemptoris_sourcing10.1.0
ibm ibmemptoris_sourcing10.1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-601

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

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