CVE-2016-9706

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

IBM Integration Bus 9.0 and 10.0 and WebSphere Message Broker SOAP FLOWS 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 #: 1997918.

Affected products

IBM Integration Bus for z/OS: 9.0, 10.0
IBM WebSphere Message Broker: 8.0

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21997918
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96274
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21997918
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96274

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