VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9698

high
Published 2017-06-08 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.1

Description

IBM Rhapsody DM 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources. IBM Reference #: 1999960.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
88%
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 ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager4.0
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager4.0.1
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager4.0.2
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager4.0.3
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager4.0.4
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager4.0.5
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager4.0.6
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager4.0.7
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager5.0
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager5.0.1
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager5.0.2
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager6.0
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager6.0.1
ibm ibmrational_rhapsody_design_manager6.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-611

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

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