CVE-2016-5970: IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager Virtual Appliance

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager (ISPIM) Virtual Appliance 2.x before 2.0.2 FP8 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a URL.

Affected products

• IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager Virtual Appliance: up to and including 2.0.2

Published 2016-09-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.