CVE-2016-8974

highpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.012 · 69 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.22% (69th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

31 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 7.8

v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.2

v3.07.4highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-611USprimary

affected products (31)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 4.0.7enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 4.0.3enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 4.0.5enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 6.0.2enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 3.0enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 5.0.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 4.0.6enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 3enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 4.0.2enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 6.0enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 3.0.0.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 4.0.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 5.0.2enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 6.0.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 4.0.4enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 5.0enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager≤ 4.0enisa_euvdEU
ibm rational rhapsody design manager= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:rational_rhapsody_design_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm rational rhapsody design manager= 4.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:rational_rhapsody_design_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm rational rhapsody design manager= 4.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:rational_rhapsody_design_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-02-23modified 2026-06-17

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references (5)

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