CVE-2016-8923 Information disclosure in Curam Social Program Management

What is CVE-2016-8923?

CVE-2016-8923 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Curam Social Program Management, published on 20 Apr 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Curam Social Program Management 5.2, 6.0, and 7.0 contains a vulnerability that would allow an authorized user to obtain sensitive information from the profile of a higher privileged user that they should not have access to. IBM X-Force ID: 118536.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8923?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Curam Social Program Management.

How do I fix CVE-2016-8923?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-8923 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-8923 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8923 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Curam Social Program Management

• CVE-2016-6111 XML external entity in Cram Social Program Management Critical 9.1
• CVE-2014-8903 Code injection in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2020-4779 Auth bypass in Curam SPM High 8.1
• CVE-2020-4772 XML external entity in Curam SPM High 7.1
• CVE-2018-1654 Open redirect in Curam Social Program Management Medium 6.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-pg38-v6v7-565r.