CVE-2016-8977 describes a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in IBM BigFix Inventory v9, affecting various platforms including HP, IBM, Linux, Microsoft, and Oracle. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) allows an unauthenticated attacker to retrieve sensitive data via HTTP GET requests, potentially leading to further attacks. While the attack complexity is low and no user interaction is required, the primary impact is limited to confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| 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:9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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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 records are not available for this CVE.