CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-5038

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-01-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-01-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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 configurations

• ibm connections (<= 3.0.1.1) • ibm connections 4.0 • ibm connections 4.5 • ibm connections 5.0

References