CVE-2015-5038

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')

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.

CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

IBM Connections

First reported 9 years ago

2016-01-03 05:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-08-04 19:20:00

Affected Software

IBM Connections 4.0

4.0

IBM Connections 4.5

4.5

IBM Connections 5.0

5.0

References

LO87020

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21971439

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