Overview
- Description
- IBM Connections 3.x before 3.0.1.1 CR3, 4.0 before CR4, 4.5 before CR5, and 5.0 before CR3 does not properly detect recursion during XML entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
- Source
- psirt@us.ibm.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 6.9
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Evaluator
- Comment
- <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/611.html">CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')</a>
- Impact
- -
- Solution
- -
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:ibm:connections:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "3703A46D-048D-4CE8-A107-D401192724B7",
"versionEndIncluding": "3.0.1.1"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:ibm:connections:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "EDBEAD70-A16A-4618-994A-455A16F0A02F"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:ibm:connections:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "D749AA83-99AF-49CD-B9E0-09F667E907E5"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:ibm:connections:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "6F522A3A-A452-4D8F-B7A0-3AC80A0DD4AE"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]