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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
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.