CVE-2015-5038
HIGHIBM Connections 3.x < 3.0.1.1 CR3, 4.0 < CR4, 4.5 < CR5, 5.0 < CR3 - Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21971439
Various Sources vendor-advisory
x_refsource_aixapar
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1LO87020
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0145
EPSS Percentile
70.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (4)
ibm/connections
4.0
ibm/connections
4.5
ibm/connections
5.0
ibm/connections
< 3.0.1.1
Published
Jan 03, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026