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CVE-2016-5979
IBM Distributed Marketing 8.6, 9.0, and 10.0 could allow a privileged authenticated user to create an instance that gets created with…
Low2.7EPSS 0.79%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
IBM Distributed Marketing 8.6, 9.0, and 10.0 could allow a privileged authenticated user to create an instance that gets created with security profile not valid for the templates, that results in the new instance not accessible for the intended user. IBM X-Force ID: 116379.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | Low2.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.79% · top 43% 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: Low 2.7.
Weakness
- Denial of Service
- CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs
Affected products
IBM Corporation · Distributed Marketing
- affected 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 10.0
References (1)
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21999526 (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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