CVE-2016-5971: IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager Virtual Appliance

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager (ISPIM) Virtual Appliance 2.x before 2.0.2 FP8 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

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.