What is CVE-2016-2961?

CVE-2016-2961 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Integration Bus, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-07-02.

How severe is CVE-2016-2961?

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

Information disclosure in IBM Integration Bus

CVE-2016-2961

The integration server in IBM Integration Bus 9 before 9.0.0.6 and 10 before 10.0.0.5 and WebSphere Message Broker 8 before 8.0.0.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive Tomcat version information by sending a malformed POST request and then reading the Java stack trace.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2016-07-02 · 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 (72.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 72.8% 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 Integration Bus — versions 9.0, 9.0.0.1, 9.0.0.2
IBM Websphere Message Broker — versions 8.0, 8.0.0.1, 8.0.0.2

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)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-2961?: CVE-2016-2961 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Integration Bus, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-07-02.
How severe is CVE-2016-2961?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.