Curam Social Program Management
CVE-2020-4772
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A02:2025 - Security Misconfiguration
ASVS 5.0
V13 - Configuration XML external entity prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 8.1 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing by sending crafted requests to the affected application. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
An XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability may impact IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.9 and 7.0.10. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Disable external entity processing in XML parsers, use JSON instead of XML where possible.
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This vulnerability is classified as XML External Entity (XXE) (CWE-611), which allows attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing. An XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability may impact IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.9 and 7.0.10. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information, denial of service, server side request forgery or consume memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 189150. Affected products include: Ibm Curam Social Program Management.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
An XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability may impact IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.9 and 7.0.10. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information, denial of service, server side request forgery or consume memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 189150.
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Attack Technique
Server-Side Request Forgery exploits applications that fetch remote resources based on user-supplied URLs.
XML External Entity (XXE) attacks exploit XML parsers that process Document Type Definitions (DTDs) without proper restrictions.
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
IBM Curam Social Program Management 8.0.0 and 8.0.1 does not invalidate session after logout which could allow an authen
IBM Curam Social Program Management 8.0.0 and 8.0.1 does not invalidate session after logout which could allow an authen
IBM Curam Social Program Management 6.0 and 7.0 are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity
IBM Curam Social Program Management 6.0 SP2 before EP26, 6.0.4 before 6.0.4.5iFix10 and 6.0.5 before 6.0.5.6 allows remo
A HTTP Verb Tampering vulnerability may impact IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.9 and 7.0.10. Rated high severity
IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.9 and 7.0.10 uses MD5 algorithm for hashing token in a single instance which les
A path traversal vulnerability may impact IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.9 and 7.0.10, which could allow a remo
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the (1) DataMappingEditorCommands, (2) DatastoreEditorComm
IBM Curam Social Program Management 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and 7.0 contains an unspecified vulnerability that could allow an aut
An improper input validation before calling java readLine() method may impact IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.9
A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability may impact IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.9 and 7.0.10, which
IBM Curam Social Program Management 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and 7.0 could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, us
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