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CVE-2017-1556

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2017-09-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

IBM API Connect 5.0.7.0 through 5.0.7.2 is vulnerable to a regular expression attack that could allow an authenticated attacker to use a regex and cause the system to slow or hang. IBM X-Force ID: 131546.

Affected products

• IBM API Connect: 5.0.7.0, 5.0.7.1, 5.0.7.2

References

• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22008315
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100831
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/131546
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22008315
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100831
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/131546

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