CVE-2016-8980: IBM Bigfix Inventory

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM BigFix Inventory v9 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources.

Affected products

• IBM Bigfix Inventory: version 9.2 only
• IBM License Metric Tool: version 9.2.0 only

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