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CVE-2016-8915

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-8915 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0. An authenticated user with specific queue manager and queue access could disrupt other channels operating within the same process. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and requires local user privileges, leading to high availability impact. 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
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_mq:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_mq:8.0.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_mq:8.0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_mq:8.0.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_mq:8.0.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0084 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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/96403