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CVE-2015-5038
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
CVSSv3.1 Severity
Impact Analysis
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.8/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 6.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- None
CVSSv3.1 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.5/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Privileges Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 3.6/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- High
- Integrity Impact
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- User Interaction
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:connections:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:connections:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:connections:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:connections:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |