CVE-2016-2998: IBM Connections

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in IBM Connections 4.0 through CR4, 4.5 through CR5, 5.0 before CR4, and 5.5 before CR1 allows remote authenticated users to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that update data.

Affected products

• IBM Connections: version 4.0.0.0 only; version 4.5.0.0 only; version 5.0.0.0 only; version 5.5.0.0 only

Published 2016-09-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.