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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.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
IbmLicense Metric Tool
Version 9.2.0
IbmBigfix Inventory
Version 9.2

Weakness classification

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