CVE-2016-6111

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

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.

Affected products

IBM Curam SPM: 5.2-sp1, 5.2-sp4, 5.2-sp6, 6.0, 6.0-sp2, 6.0.0 (+33)

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22000833
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97244
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22000833
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97244

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