CVE-2015-5038
moderate-risk
Published 2016-01-03
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.
Do I need to act?
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0.89% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 7.5/10
High
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (4)
Affected Vendors
39
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
26/34 · High
Exploitability
3/34 · Minimal
Exposure
10/34 · Low