# CVE-2016-6112: Privilege escalation in Marketing Platform

> Authenticated users can escalate privileges to gain administrative permissions in IBM Marketing Platform, requiring vendor patches.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 May 2017
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-63qr-c54j-6569

## What is CVE-2016-6112?

CVE-2016-6112 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Corporation Marketing Platform, published on 22 May 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

IBM Distributed Marketing and Marketing Platform 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, and 10.0 could allow an authenticated user to escalate their privileges and gain administrative permissions over the web application. IBM X-Force ID: 118282.

Weakness: CWE-264

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6112?

It affects 3 products.


Products: Ibm Distributed Marketing, Ibm Marketing Operations, Ibm Marketing Platform.

## How do I fix CVE-2016-6112?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-6112 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2016-6112 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6112 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM Corporation Marketing Platform

- [CVE-2016-5979](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5979/): Business logic in Distributed Marketing (low 2.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2016-6112 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2016-6112 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Corporation Marketing Platform, published on 22 May 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6112 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM Corporation Marketing Platform. 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-2016-6112/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-6112/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6112
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6112
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6112

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