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High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Feb 1, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2016-6059

CVE-2016-6059

Description

IBM InfoSphere Information Server is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources.

Affected products

8
  • IBM/Infosphere Information Server On Cloud
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:infosphere_information_server_on_cloud:11.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • IBM/Infosphere Datastage3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:infosphere_datastage:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:infosphere_datastage:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:infosphere_datastage:11.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:infosphere_datastage:11.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • IBM/Infosphere Information Server3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:infosphere_information_server:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:infosphere_information_server:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:infosphere_information_server:11.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:infosphere_information_server:11.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • IBM Corporation/InfoSphere Information Serverv5
    Range: 8.1

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

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