What is CVE-2016-2935?

CVE-2016-2935 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Bigfix Remote Control, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-11-30.

How severe is CVE-2016-2935?

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

Improper input validation in IBM Bigfix Remote Control

CVE-2016-2935

The broker application in IBM BigFix Remote Control before 9.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an invalid HTTP request.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

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:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Bigfix Remote Control

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94989 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-2935?: CVE-2016-2935 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Bigfix Remote Control, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-11-30.
How severe is CVE-2016-2935?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.