CVE-2015-5038

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-03 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

IBM Connections: through 3.0.1.1; 4.0, 4.5, 5.0

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1LO87020
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21971439
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1LO87020
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21971439

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