CVE-2016-6111

critical

Description

IBM Curam Social Program Management 6.0 and 7.0 are 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. IBM Reference #: 2000833.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97244

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22000833

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-31

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00407