CVE-2021-20453high

CVE-2021-20453: high-severity vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Application Server

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 8.2epss 2.5%
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to a 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. IBM X-Force ID: 196648.
CVSS:3.0/S:U/PR:N/UI:N/AC:L/I:N/C:H/A:L/AV:N/RC:C/RL:O/E:U
Affected products
IBM · WebSphere Application Server
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