What is CVE-2016-5952?

CVE-2016-5952 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Kenexa Lcms Premier, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-02-01.

How severe is CVE-2016-5952?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

SQL Injection in IBM Kenexa Lcms Premier

CVE-2016-5952

IBM Kenexa LCMS Premier 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

Published 2017-02-01 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (70.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 70.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Kenexa Lcms Premier — versions 9.0, 9.1, 9.2
IBM Corporation Kenexa Lcms Premier On Cloud — versions 10.2.0, 9.3.0, 10.1.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/93520 (Technical Description, VDB Entry, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5952?: CVE-2016-5952 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Kenexa Lcms Premier, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-02-01.
How severe is CVE-2016-5952?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.