CVE-2016-8999

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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: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 InfoSphere Information Server contains a Path-relative stylesheet import vulnerability that allows attackers to render a page in quirks mode thereby facilitating an attacker to inject malicious CSS.

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	infosphere_datastage	`8.7`
ibm	infosphere_datastage	`9.1`
ibm	infosphere_datastage	`11.3`
ibm	infosphere_datastage	`11.5`
ibm	infosphere_information_server	`8.7`
ibm	infosphere_information_server	`9.1`
ibm	infosphere_information_server	`11.3`
ibm	infosphere_information_server	`11.5`
ibm	infosphere_information_server_on_cloud	`11.5`

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.