CVE-2021-20492
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-26 16:20
Modified
2024-09-16 17:15
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Summary
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, and Liberty Java Batch 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: 197793.
References
psirt@us.ibm.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197793VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
psirt@us.ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6456017Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
IBMWebSphere Application Server
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