CVE-2016-5958: IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager: version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1 only

Published 2017-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.