# CVE-2016-5933: Other in Tivoli Monitoring V6

> Attackers can inject host headers to poison HTTP caches or bypass firewalls in IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.6 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Mar 2017
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5rqg-h4vq-f5hp

## What is CVE-2016-5933?

CVE-2016-5933 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Corporation Tivoli Monitoring V6, published on 8 Mar 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 and 6.3 is vulnerable to possible host header injection attack that could lead to HTTP cache poisoning or firewall bypass. IBM Reference #: 1997223.

Weakness: CWE-254

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5933?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Tivoli Monitoring.

## How do I fix CVE-2016-5933?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-5933 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2016-5933 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5933 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM Corporation Tivoli Monitoring V6

- [CVE-2015-7411](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-7411/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2025-3357](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3357/): IBM Tivoli Monitoring code execution (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2017-1789](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1789/): Code injection in Tivoli Monitoring V6 (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-3356](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3356/): IBM Tivoli Monitoring is vulnerable to unauthenticated file read and write operations (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2015-5003](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-5003/): Command injection in n/a (high 8.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2016-5933 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2016-5933 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Corporation Tivoli Monitoring V6, published on 8 Mar 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5933 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM Corporation Tivoli Monitoring V6. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5933/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5933/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5933
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5933
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5933

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5933/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.