VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9692

high
Published 2017-05-05 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.6

Description

IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Solution 7.0.0 and 7.5.0.0 is vulnerable to External Service Interaction attack, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to induce the application to perform server-side DNS lookups or HTTP requests to arbitrary domain names. By submitting suitable payloads, an attacker can cause the application server to attack other systems that it can interact with. IBM X-Force ID: 119516.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
91%
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
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmwebsphere_cast_iron_solution7.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_cast_iron_solution7.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_cast_iron_solution7.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_cast_iron_solution7.5.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_cast_iron_solution7.5.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_cast_iron_solution7.5.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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