CVE-2018-1905

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.1
EPSS: EPSS 2.53 % · percentile 85 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2018-11-26
Updated: 2024-09-16
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Modified

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0.0.0 through 9.0.0.9 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: 152534.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 7.1	CVSS:3.0/A:L/AC:L/AV:N/C:H/I:N/PR:L/S:U/UI:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O	ibm
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 7.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 7.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 5.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-611

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-12484
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-1905

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.0.0.0 ≤ 9.0.0.9

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · WebSphere Application Server	affected 9.0.0.0 ; affected 9.0.0.1 ; affected 9.0.0.2 ; affected 9.0.0.3 ; affected 9.0.0.4 ; affected 9.0.0.5

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD