Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-5971 - XXE vulnerability in IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager Virtual Appliance 2.0/2.0.2

047910
CVSS 7.1 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
LOW
network
low complexity
ibm
CWE-611

Summary

IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager (ISPIM) Virtual Appliance 2.x before 2.0.2 FP8 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.