What is CVE-2016-2931?

CVE-2016-2931 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Bigfix Remote Control, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-11-30.

How severe is CVE-2016-2931?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in IBM Bigfix Remote Control

CVE-2016-2931

IBM BigFix Remote Control before 9.1.3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext information by sniffing the network.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2016-11-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 73.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Bigfix Remote Control

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (Vendor Advisory)
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94984 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-2931?: CVE-2016-2931 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Bigfix Remote Control, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-11-30.
How severe is CVE-2016-2931?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.