CVE-2016-9698: IBM Rational Rhapsody Design Manager

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Rhapsody DM 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 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. IBM Reference #: 1999960.

Affected products

• IBM Rational Rhapsody Design Manager: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.0.5 only; …

Published 2017-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.