Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2016-6111

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-6111 describes an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability affecting IBM Curam Social Program Management versions 6.0 and 7.0. This critical vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 9.1, allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service by consuming system resources or potentially expose highly sensitive information. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, the high severity warrants attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:curam_social_program_management:5.2:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:curam_social_program_management:5.2:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:curam_social_program_management:5.2:sp6:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:curam_social_program_management:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:curam_social_program_management:6.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.1CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0208 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ibm.com / support/docview.wss
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/97244
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry