What is CVE-2016-5933?

CVE-2016-5933 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Monitoring, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2017-03-08.

How severe is CVE-2016-5933?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.

Vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Monitoring

CVE-2016-5933

IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 and 6.3 is vulnerable to possible host header injection attack that could lead to HTTP cache poisoning or firewall bypass. IBM Reference #: 1997223.

Published 2017-03-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (44.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 45th percentile — 44.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Tivoli Monitoring — versions 6.2.2, 6.2.2.2, 6.2.2.3
IBM Corporation Tivoli Monitoring V6 — versions 6.2.2.8, 6.2.3, 6.2.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-254

References

www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5933?: CVE-2016-5933 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Monitoring, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2017-03-08.
How severe is CVE-2016-5933?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.