{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2959 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2016-2959 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2016-2959 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Sametime, published on 29 Aug 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-2959 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-2959 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Sametime, published on 29 Aug 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2959 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: IBM Sametime. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-2959/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-2959/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-2959","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-2959/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-2959","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-hvx8-72rj-4gwh"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"IBM Sametime Meeting Server","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A meeting room manager can improperly remove the primary manager's privileges, leading to unauthorized privilege escalation within the meeting server.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"ibm","cpe":[{"product":"sametime","vendor":"ibm"}],"cvss":{"score":4.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-264","name":null}],"description":"IBM Sametime Meeting Server 8.5.2 and 9.0 could allow a meeting room manager to remove the primary managers privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 113804.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Sametime","id":"CVE-2016-2959","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2016"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-2960"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-2958"},"products":["Sametime"],"published":"2017-08-29","related":[{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Information disclosure in Sametime","id":"CVE-2016-2972","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-08-29"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Open redirect in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-3983","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2014-02-13"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-6742","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2014-02-13"},{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-3988","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2014-02-13"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Cross-site request forgery in Sametime","id":"CVE-2016-0355","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-08-29"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Cross-site request forgery in Sametime","id":"CVE-2016-0356","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-08-29"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Cross-site request forgery in Sametime","id":"CVE-2016-2965","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-08-29"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-16","vendors":["IBM"]},"summary":"A meeting room manager can improperly remove the primary manager's privileges, leading to unauthorized privilege escalation within the meeting server.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-2959/"}