Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-8980 - XXE vulnerability in IBM Bigfix Inventory and License Metric Tool
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
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| Application | 2 | |
| OS | 1 | |
| OS | 1 | |
| OS | 1 | |
| OS | 1 | |
| OS | 1 |