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CVE-2015-5038

N/A
Published: January 3, 2016 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorConnections

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (2)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
Source: [email protected]
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1LO87020
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21971439

CVSS

7.8HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other

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