CVE-2016-8964

critical

Published 2017-07-13 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

IBM BigFix Inventory v9 9.2 uses an inadequate account lockout setting that could allow a remote attacker to brute force account credentials. IBM X-Force ID: 118853.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

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	Fixed
ibm	bigfix_inventory	`{"startIncluding":"9.0","endExcluding":"9.2.8"}`	`9.2.8`
ibm	license_metric_tool	`{"startIncluding":"9.0","endExcluding":"9.2.8"}`	`9.2.8`

References

CWEs

CWE-200 CWE-254

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

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