CVE-2016-2880 describes a critical vulnerability in IBM QRadar 7.2 where a local user can access the encryption key used to protect service account passwords. This flaw carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating that a low-privileged local attacker can achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is public exploit code available, and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qradar_security_information_and_event_manager:7.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qradar_security_information_and_event_manager:7.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qradar_security_information_and_event_manager:7.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qradar_security_information_and_event_manager:7.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qradar_security_information_and_event_manager:7.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.