VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9693

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Published 2017-03-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.1

Description

IBM Business Process Manager 7.5, 8.0, and 8.5 has a file download capability that is vulnerable to a set of attacks. Ultimately, an attacker can cause an unauthenticated victim to download a malicious payload. An existing file type restriction can be bypassed so that the payload might be considered executable and cause damage on the victim's machine. IBM Reference #: 1998655.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
61%
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 ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.0.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.0.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.1.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.1.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.1.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.0.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.3
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.0.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.0.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.0.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.5.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.6.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.6.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.7.0
ibm ibmwebsphere7.2
ibm ibmwebsphere7.2.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere7.2.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere7.2.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere7.2.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere7.2.0.5

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.