THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-1821
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-1821

Operational Decision Manager vulnerability

CVSS
7.1
EPSS
15.8%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
IBM Operational Decision Management 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, and 8.9 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: 150170.
Affected vendor
Ibm
Affected product
Operational Decision Manager
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-611 — XML External Entity (XXE) Reference
Published
2018-12-13

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, low impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 15.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Ibm Operational Decision Manager is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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