CVE-2016-2996 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager 2.0 before 2.0.2 FP8, when Virtual Appliance is used, allows remote authenticated users to append to arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Published: 2016-11-24

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:security_privileged_identity_manager:2.0.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:security_privileged_identity_manager:2.0.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:security_privileged_identity_manager:2.0.2:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-4069	IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager 2.0 before 2.0.2 FP8, when Virtual Appliance is used, allows remote authenticated users to append to arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0015.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21988706

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Ibm Security Privileged Identity Manager

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ibm

Published: 2016-11-24T19:41:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:40:14.473Z

Reserved: 2016-03-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-2996

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-11-24T19:59:12.407

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-2996

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-20

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