CVE-2019-4720

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.5
EPSS: EPSS 1.84 % · percentile 79 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2020-01-31
Updated: 2024-09-16
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Modified

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by sending a specially-crafted request. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to consume all available memory. IBM X-Force ID: 172125.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.0/AC:L/C:N/I:N/PR:N/A:H/AV:N/UI:N/S:U/E:U/RC:C/RL:O	ibm
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-770

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2019-14327
GCVE · GCVE-0-2019-4720

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2020-AVI-677 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2020-AVI-158 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans IBM WebSphere Application Server · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2020-AVI-155 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans IBM WebSphere Liberty · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2020-AVI-066 — Vulnérabilité dans IBM WebSphere · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:liberty:*:*:* < 20.0.0.2
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0.0 ≤ 7.0.0.45
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.0.0.0 ≤ 8.0.0.15
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.5.0.0 ≤ 8.5.5.17
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.0.0.0 ≤ 9.0.5.2
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:hypervisor:*:*:* ≥ 9.0.0.0 ≤ 9.0.5.2

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · WebSphere Application Server	affected 7.0 ; affected 8.0 ; affected 8.5 ; affected 9.0

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
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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