CVE-2016-8961: IBM Bigfix Inventory

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM BigFix Inventory v9 could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, using an open redirect attack. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the URL displayed to redirect a user to a malicious Web site that would appear to be trusted. This could allow the attacker to obtain highly sensitive information or conduct further attacks against the victim.

Affected products

• IBM Bigfix Inventory: up to and including 9.2
• IBM License Metric Tool: version 9.2.0 only

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