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CVE-2016-0288
IBM Security AppScan Standard 8.7.x, 8.8.x, and 9.x before 9.0.3.2 and Security AppScan Enterprise allow remote authenticated users to…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
IBM Security AppScan Standard 8.7.x, 8.8.x, and 9.x before 9.0.3.2 and Security AppScan Enterprise allow remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (2)
- 1035927 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21980055 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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