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CVE-2016-5996

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5996 describes a vulnerability in the web portal of IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience across multiple versions, where password-length restrictions are not enforced. This flaw significantly eases brute-force attacks, allowing remote attackers to potentially gain unauthorized access. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, posing a high risk of confidentiality compromise. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 8.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tealeaf_customer_experience:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tealeaf_customer_experience:8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tealeaf_customer_experience:9.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tealeaf_customer_experience:9.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.1aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tealeaf_customer_experience:9.0.1a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0138 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/93138