CVE-2016-5986: IBM WebSphere Application Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.x before 7.0.0.43, 8.0.x before 8.0.0.13, 8.5.x before 8.5.5.11, 9.0.x before 9.0.0.2, and Liberty before 16.0.0.3 mishandles responses, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.0.0 only; version 7.0.0.1 only; version 7.0.0.2 only; version 7.0.0.3 only; version 7.0.0.4 only; …

Published 2016-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.