VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4069

medium
Published 2013-12-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The Portal application in IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services 4.2.1 before 4.2.1.3 IF3 and 5.0 before FP3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmspss_collaboration_and_deployment_services4.2.1
ibm ibmspss_collaboration_and_deployment_services4.2.1.1
ibm ibmspss_collaboration_and_deployment_services4.2.1.2
ibm ibmspss_collaboration_and_deployment_services4.2.1.3
ibm ibmspss_collaboration_and_deployment_services5.0.0
ibm ibmspss_collaboration_and_deployment_services5.0.0.1
ibm ibmspss_collaboration_and_deployment_services5.0.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.