CVE-2016-9692: IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Solution

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Solution 7.0.0 and 7.5.0.0 is vulnerable to External Service Interaction attack, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to induce the application to perform server-side DNS lookups or HTTP requests to arbitrary domain names. By submitting suitable payloads, an attacker can cause the application server to attack other systems that it can interact with. IBM X-Force ID: 119516.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Solution: version 7.0.0 only; version 7.0.0.1 only; version 7.0.0.2 only; version 7.5.0.0 only; version 7.5.0.1 only; version 7.5.1.0 only

Published 2017-05-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.