CVE•Published 2017-02-23•Modified 2026-05-13•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2016-8974Ibm · Rational_rhapsody_design_manager
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.1
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
IBM Rhapsody DM 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources. IBM Reference #: 1997798.
Timeline
Published 2017-02-23
Modified 2026-05-13
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2016-8974Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product + version
product:"Ibm Rational Rhapsody Design Manager" version:"4.0"Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Rational Rhapsody Design Manager"HTTP body or banner mentions "Rational Rhapsody Design Manager" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2016-8974Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2016-8974Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2016-8974Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2016-8974GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2016-8974" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.