CVE-2023-27554

IBM WebSphere Application Server XML external entity injection

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: May 11, 2023
Updated: Jan 24, 2025
Reserved: Mar 2, 2023

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 249185.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L	ibm
3.1	9.1 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
WebSphere Application ServerIBM	8.5, 9.0Affected

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6989451vendor-advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249185vdb-entry

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