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CVE-2016-6029 — Ibm Emptoris Strategic Supply Management security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.9

IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management Platform 10.0 and 10.1 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to properly enable HTTP Strict Transport Security. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information using man in the middle techniques. IBM X-Force ID: 116881.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.9 (3.0)
Published
2017-08-14
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Affected products

  • ibm / emptoris_strategic_supply_management / 10.0.0.0
  • ibm / emptoris_strategic_supply_management / 10.0.0.1
  • ibm / emptoris_strategic_supply_management / 10.0.0.2
  • ibm / emptoris_strategic_supply_management / 10.0.0.3
  • ibm / emptoris_strategic_supply_management / 10.0.1.0
  • ibm / emptoris_strategic_supply_management / 10.0.1.1

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Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

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