CVE-2024-22354 (GCVE-0-2024-22354)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-17 01:07 – Updated: 2024-08-01 22:43
VLAI
Title
IBM WebSphere Application Server XML external entity injection
Summary
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5, 9.0 and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 24.0.0.5 are vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information, consume memory resources, or to conduct a server-side request forgery attack. IBM X-Force ID: 280401.
Severity
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-28 20:07 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM WebSphere Application Server Affected: 8.5, 9.0
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Affected: 17.0.0.3 , ≤ 24.0.0.5 (semver)
Affected: cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:17.0.0.3:*:*:*:liberty:*:*:* (cpe)
Affected: cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:24.0.0.5:*:*:*:liberty:*:*:* (cpe)
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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