VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-1527

high
Published 2017-09-26 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.1

Description

IBM Business Process Manager 7.5, 8.0, and 8.5 is vulnerable to a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 130156.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
88%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.0.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.0.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.1.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.1.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager7.5.1.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.0.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.0.1.3
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.0.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.0.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.0.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.5.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.6.0
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.6.1
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.6.2
ibm ibmbusiness_process_manager8.5.7.0

References

CWEs

CWE-611

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

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