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CVE-2016-8980

IBM BigFix Inventory v9 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.

  • Published: Feb 1, 2017
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2016-8980
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C

CWEs:

OWASP TOP 10:

Software From Fixed in
ibm / license_metric_tool 9.2.0 9.2.0.x
ibm / bigfix_inventory 9.2 9.2.x