CVE-2016-8980

HIGH 8.1CVE-2016-8980 · Published 01/02/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-8980 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.1) vulnerability affecting bigfix inventory (ibm), license metric tool (ibm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 74.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
bigfix inventory ibm	`= 9.2`	No fix yet
license metric tool ibm	`= 9.2.0`	No fix yet

Description

IBM BigFix Inventory v9 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources.

References

ibm.com/support/docview.wss · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/95141 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

bigfix inventory

ibm

= 9.2

No fix yet

license metric tool

ibm

= 9.2.0

No fix yet

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