Security Bulletin: XML External Entity Injection Attack in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty May Affect IBM Storage Protect Operations Center

IBM Corp. had published a security bulletin concerning XML external entity injection attack in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty may affect IBM Storage Protect Operations Center.

Summary
This center may be affected by loss of confidentiality, availability and integrity of host system caused by XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty.

Vulnerability details:

CVEID:   CVE-2024-22354
DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5, 9.0 and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 24.0.0.5 are vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information, consume memory resources, or to conduct a server-side request forgery attack. IBM X-Force ID: 280401.
CWE:  CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
CVSS Source:  IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:  7
CVSS Vector:  (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and mitigations: None

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References
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Related information
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
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Acknowledgement

Change history
October 16, 2024: Initial Publication

^(*) The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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