VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0321

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Published 2016-07-17 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.2

Description

IBM Personal Communications (aka PCOMM) 6.x before 6.0.17 and 12.x before 12.0.0.1 does not properly restrict credential extraction, which allows local users to discover passwords by leveraging access to the victim account and executing a PowerShell script.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
62%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmpersonal_communications12.0.0
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.0
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.1
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.2
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.3
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.4
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.5
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.6
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.7
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.8
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.9
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.10
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.11
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.12
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.13
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.14
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.15
ibm ibmpersonal_communications6.0.16

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.