CVE-2016-5938

low

Published 2017-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

3.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.3

Description

IBM Kenexa LMS on Cloud allows web pages to be stored locally which can be read by another user on the system.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

34%

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.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
ibm	kenexa_lms	`4.1`
ibm	kenexa_lms	`4.2`
ibm	kenexa_lms	`4.2.2`
ibm	kenexa_lms	`4.2.3`
ibm	kenexa_lms	`4.2.4`
ibm	kenexa_lms	`5.0`
ibm	kenexa_lms	`5.1`
ibm	kenexa_lms	`5.2`

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.