CVE-2016-6084 Denial of service in BigFix Platform

What is CVE-2016-6084?

CVE-2016-6084 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM Corporation BigFix Platform, published on 1 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM BigFix Platform could allow an attacker on the local network to crash the BES server using a specially crafted XMLSchema request.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6084?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Bigfix Platform.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6084?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-6084 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-2016-6084 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6084 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Corporation BigFix Platform

• CVE-2016-6082 Use after free in BigFix Platform Critical 10.0
• CVE-2018-1475 Security feature bypass in BigFix Platform Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-1221 Weak cryptography in BigFix Platform Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-4013 File upload in BigFix Platform Critical 9.0
• CVE-2018-1479 Cross-site request forgery in BigFix Platform High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8429-c5x8-7qw9.