CVE-2016-5974 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web UI in IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager (ISPIM) Virtual Appliance 2.x before 2.0.2 FP8 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an embedded string

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web UI in IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager (ISPIM) Virtual Appliance 2.x before 2.0.2 FP8 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an embedded string

Published Sep 26, 2016

5.4

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.62%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web UI in IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager (ISPIM) Virtual Appliance 2.x before 2.0.2 FP8 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an embedded string.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.62% 0.00622

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00622

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.62% (0.00622)	47.92th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.61% (0.00609)	44.30th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.17% (0.00168)	35.52th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.06% (0.00060)	27.57th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 31, 2024	0.06% (0.00060)	25.39th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.06% (0.00060)	23.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (1)

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21989205
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21989205		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner ibm

Published Sep 26, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jun 29, 2016

Link CVE-2016-5974

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-5974

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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