CVE-2016-3027

medium

Description

IBM Security Access Manager for Web 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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96127

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21994440

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-02-01

Updated: 2026-05-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0056