CVE-2016-2960 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2960?

CVE-2016-2960 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Websphere Application Server, published on 8 Aug 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.x before 7.0.0.43, 8.0.0.x before 8.0.0.13, 8.5.0.x before 8.5.5.10, 8.5.0.x and 16.0.0.x Liberty before Liberty Fix Pack 16.0.0.3, and 9.0.0.x before 9.0.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted SIP messages.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2960?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Websphere Application Server.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2960?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-2960 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-2960 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2960 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Websphere Application Server

• CVE-2015-1920 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2013-0462 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-1377 Security feature bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3186 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1899 Information disclosure in n/a Critical 10.0

All Ibm Websphere Application Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x8r3-pr2v-2qxg.