CVE-2016-8961 describes an open redirect vulnerability in IBM BigFix Inventory v9, affecting various platforms including hp, ibm, linux, microsoft, and oracle. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) allows a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks by redirecting users to malicious websites via a specially crafted URL, potentially leading to sensitive information disclosure or further attacks. While the attack complexity is low, requiring user interaction, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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.
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.