CVE-2016-5941

medium

Description

IBM Kenexa LMS on Cloud could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing dot dot sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95438

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21992072

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-02-01

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.7

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00474