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Fencer Vulns
high 8.6

CVE-2016-5803 json

An issue was discovered in CA Unified Infrastructure Management Version 8.47 and earlier.

published 2017-02-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6738

cvss
8.6
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in CA Unified Infrastructure Management Version 8.47 and earlier. The Unified Infrastructure Management software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize sequences such as ".." that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-16-315-01B updated cvss 8.6

CA Unified Infrastructure Management Directory Traversal Vulnerability (Update B)

  • CA Technologies Unified Infrastructure Management <=8.47
    affected: mitigation “CA Technologies recommends that users upgrade to UIM 8.5 or later, which is available at the CA Support Download Center at: https://support.ca.com” support.ca.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a CA Unified Infrastructure Management 8.47 and earlier

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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