VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5979

low
Published 2017-05-15 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
2.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.7

Description

IBM Distributed Marketing 8.6, 9.0, and 10.0 could allow a privileged authenticated user to create an instance that gets created with security profile not valid for the templates, that results in the new instance not accessible for the intended user. IBM X-Force ID: 116379.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
39%
Patch ETA
—

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 ibmdistributed_marketing8.6.0.0
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing8.6.0.2
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing8.6.0.3
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing8.6.0.4
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing8.6.0.5
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing8.6.0.6
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing8.6.0.7
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing8.6.0.8
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing8.6.0.9
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing8.6.0.10
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.0.0
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.0.2
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.0.3
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.0.4
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.0.5
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.0.6
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.0.7
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.0.8
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.0.9
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.0.10
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.0.11
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.2.0
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.2.1
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.2.2
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing9.1.2.3
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing10.0.0.0
ibm ibmdistributed_marketing10.0.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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