CVE-2024-49781 (GCVE-0-2024-49781)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-20 12:04
Modified
2025-08-15 14:47
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Summary
IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 IBM OpenPages 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 or consume memory resources.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM OpenPages with Watson Version: 8.3
Version: 9.0
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:openpages_with_watson:8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:openpages_with_watson:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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