CVE-2024-49781 (GCVE-0-2024-49781)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-20 12:04 – Updated: 2025-08-15 14:47
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Summary
IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 IBM OpenPages 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.
Severity ?
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Assigner
ibm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM OpenPages with Watson Affected: 8.3
Affected: 9.0
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:openpages_with_watson:8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:openpages_with_watson:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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