What is CVE-2016-5979?

CVE-2016-5979 is a low-severity vulnerability in IBM Distributed Marketing, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 2.7/10. Published 2017-05-15.

How severe is CVE-2016-5979?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.7 out of 10.

Vulnerability in IBM Distributed Marketing

CVE-2016-5979

IBM Distributed Marketing 8.6, 9.0, and 10.0 could allow a privileged authenticated user to create an instance that gets created with security profile not valid for the templates, that results in the new instance not accessible for the intended user. IBM X-Force ID: 116379.

Published 2017-05-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 2.7 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (54.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 55th percentile — 54.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Distributed Marketing — versions 8.6.0.0, 8.6.0.2, 8.6.0.3
IBM Corporation Distributed Marketing — versions 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5979?: CVE-2016-5979 is a low-severity vulnerability in IBM Distributed Marketing, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 2.7/10. Published 2017-05-15.
How severe is CVE-2016-5979?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.7 out of 10.