CVE-2016-5958
IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to set the…
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- ibm
Description
IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to set the secure flag for the session cookie in SSL mode. By intercepting its transmission within an HTTP session, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to capture the cookie and obtain sensitive information.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 7 months later
· 7 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 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Obtain Information
- CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
Affected products
IBM Corporation · Privileged Identity Manager
- affected 1.0.1
- affected 1.0.1.1
- affected 2.0.0
- affected 2.0.1
- affected 2.0.2
- affected 2.1.0
References (2)
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996614 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 95196 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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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