gsd-2016-8980
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:21
Details
IBM BigFix Inventory v9 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources.
Aliases
Aliases
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