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CVE-2016-8974

HIGH · CVSS 8.1 EPSS 1.22% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-02-23 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2016-8974
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.1
EPSS
1.22%

Original NVD Description

IBM Rhapsody DM 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources. IBM Reference #: 1997798.