{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5994 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2016-5994 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2016-5994 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Infosphere Information Server, published on 1 Feb 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-5994 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-5994 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Infosphere Information Server, published on 1 Feb 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-2016-5994 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Ibm Infosphere Information Server. 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-2016-5994/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5994/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-5994","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5994/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-5994","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-cvf8-x2hr-5f3p"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"IBM InfoSphere Information Server","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated users can browse and read arbitrary files on the engine tier, exposing sensitive system information.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"ibm","cpe":[{"product":"infosphere_information_server","vendor":"ibm"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-200","name":"Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor"}],"description":"IBM InfoSphere Information Server contains a vulnerability that would allow an authenticated user to browse any file on the engine tier, and examine its contents.","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":"Path traversal in InfoSphere Information Server","id":"CVE-2016-5994","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"ibm:infosphere_information_server","products":["ibm:infosphere_information_server"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2016"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-5995"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-5992"},"products":["InfoSphere Information Server"],"published":"2017-02-01","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-4240","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2009-12-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Command injection in InfoSphere DataStage","id":"CVE-2022-40752","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-11-16"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Code injection in IBM InfoSphere Information Server","id":"CVE-2022-22425","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-11-03"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Deserialization in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-27583","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"XML external entity in IBM InfoSphere Information Server","id":"CVE-2022-40747","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-11-03"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"XML external entity in InfoSphere Information Server","id":"CVE-2017-1383","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-08-02"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"IBM InfoSphere Information Server command execution","id":"CVE-2025-36245","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-09-29"}],"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":"2024-08-06","vendors":["IBM Corporation"]},"summary":"Authenticated users can browse and read arbitrary files on the engine tier, exposing sensitive system information.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5994/"}