cve-2023-47160
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-19 16:20
Modified
2025-02-19 16:44
Severity ?
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
Summary
IBM Cognos Controller 11.0.0 through 11.0.1 FP3 and IBM Controller 11.1.0 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.
References
psirt@us.ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7183597
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Cognos Controller Version: 11.0.0   ≤ 11.0.1
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