VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2980

medium
Published 2017-08-29 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.3

Description

The Sametime WebPlayer 8.5.2 and 9.0 is vulnerable to a script injection where a malicious site can inject their own script by exploiting a vulnerability in the way that the WebPlayer works. IBM X-Force ID: 113993.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
73%
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 ibmsametime8.5.2.0
ibm ibmsametime8.5.2.1
ibm ibmsametime9.0.0.0
ibm ibmsametime9.0.0.1
ibm ibmsametime9.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-74

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

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