Vulnerability Assessment
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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. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 15, 2026
IBM Business Automation Workflow, in both its container and traditional (on-premises) distributions, fails to restrict XML external entity resolution when parsing XML data, allowing an authenticated remote user to read server-side files or exhaust process memory. The flaw carries a CVSS base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N, C:H/I:N/A:L), meaning a low-privileged but valid account is required — it is not exploitable unauthenticated. IBM has published a vendor fix via support document node 7285930; there is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit code identified at time of analysis, and no EPSS score was supplied with the intelligence feed.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
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CVSS VectorVendor: ibm
DescriptionCVE.org
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional 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 resource.
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Attack Technique
XML External Entity (XXE) attacks exploit XML parsers that process Document Type Definitions (DTDs) without proper restrictions.
XML External Entity (XXE) injection in IBM Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional deployments allows an
IBM Business Automation Workflow (both containerized and traditional deployments) fails to enforce authorization checks
Improper TLS hostname verification in IBM Business Automation Workflow exposes high-privilege sessions to man-in-the-mid
EUVD-2026-78865
GHSA-mrc5-qwcp-hm9c
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