CVE-2015-5038: 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…

PriorityP434high7.5CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.45%

70.4th percentile

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.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ibm	connections	<= 3.0.1.1	—
ibm	connections	—	—
ibm	connections	—	—
ibm	connections	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.07.8HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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