CVE-2016-8980 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in IBM BigFix Inventory v9, stemming from an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error during XML data processing, impacting various products including IBM, HP, and Oracle. This high-severity vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 8.1, allows a remote attacker to achieve a denial of service by consuming memory resources or potentially expose sensitive information. Despite its severity, 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:9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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.