CVE-2016-8980 (GCVE-0-2016-8980)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-02-01 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:35
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CWE
  • Obtain Information
Summary
IBM BigFix Inventory v9 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.
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IBM Corporation BigFix Inventory Version: 9.2
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