CVE-2016-8999

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2016-8999 · Published 01/02/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-8999 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting infosphere datastage (ibm), infosphere information server (ibm), infosphere information server on cloud (ibm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.72%, higher than 53.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
infosphere datastage ibm	`= 11.3= 11.5= 8.7= 9.1`	No fix yet
infosphere information server ibm	`= 11.3= 11.5= 8.7= 9.1`	No fix yet
infosphere information server on cloud ibm	`= 11.5`	No fix yet

Description

IBM InfoSphere Information Server contains a Path-relative stylesheet import vulnerability that allows attackers to render a page in quirks mode thereby facilitating an attacker to inject malicious CSS.

References

ibm.com/support/docview.wss · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/95325 · Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1037563

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In short

CVE-2016-8999 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting infosphere datastage (ibm), infosphere information server (ibm), infosphere information server on cloud (ibm).

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.72%, higher than 53.8% of all vulnerabilities.

No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

infosphere datastage

ibm

= 11.3= 11.5= 8.7= 9.1

No fix yet

infosphere information server

ibm

= 11.3= 11.5= 8.7= 9.1

No fix yet

infosphere information server on cloud

ibm

= 11.5

No fix yet

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