CVE-2020-4643
At a glance Severity HIGH 7.5 EPSS EPSS 2.84 % · percentile 87 (2026-10-27) State PUBLISHED Published 2020-09-21 Updated 2024-09-17 Assigner ibm NVD status Modified Description IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 185590.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 3.0 HIGH 7.5 CVSS:3.0/C:H/AV:N/AC:L/S:U/A:N/UI:N/I:N/PR:N/RL:O/E:U/RC:C ibm CVSS 3.1 HIGH 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N 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:H/I:N/A:N NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary) CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
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Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0.0 ≤ 7.0.0.45cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.0.0.0 ≤ 8.0.0.15cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.5.0.0 ≤ 8.5.5.17cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.0.0.0 ≤ 9.0.5.5Affected products
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