CVE-2016-6082

critical

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

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CVSS v3

10.0

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

IBM BigFix Platform could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free race condition. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

98%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	bigfix_platform	`9.0`
ibm	bigfix_platform	`9.1`
ibm	bigfix_platform	`9.2`
ibm	bigfix_platform	`9.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-416

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

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