CVE-2016-8974

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

IBM Rhapsody DM 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 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. IBM Reference #: 1997798.

Affected products

IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+8)

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21997798
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21997798

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