VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-5372

medium
Published 2013-10-19 · 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
4.3

Description

The XML4J parser in IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.1 before 6.1.0.12, 7.0 before 7.0.0.7, and 8.0 before 8.0.0.4 and IBM Integration Bus 9.0 before 9.0.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document that triggers expansion for many entities.

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 ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.10
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker6.1.0.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker8.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_message_broker7.0.0.6

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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

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