What is CVE-2016-5939?

CVE-2016-5939 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Kenexa Lms On Cloud, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2017-02-01.

How severe is CVE-2016-5939?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.

SQL Injection in IBM Kenexa Lms On Cloud

CVE-2016-5939

IBM Kenexa LMS on Cloud is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.008 (52.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Ibm Kenexa_lms_on_cloud — versions 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.2
Ibm Corporation Kenexa Lms On Cloud — versions 14.0.0, 13.2.4, 13.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

psirt@us.ibm.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
psirt@us.ibm.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5939?: CVE-2016-5939 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Kenexa Lms On Cloud, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2017-02-01.
How severe is CVE-2016-5939?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.