CVE-2016-8981 describes a local information disclosure vulnerability in IBM BigFix Inventory v9, affecting various platforms including HP, IBM, Linux, Microsoft, and Oracle. An attacker with local access can read web pages stored on the system, potentially exposing sensitive data. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but can lead to high confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:license_metric_tool:9.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:bigfix_inventory:9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.