CVE-2026-14979 (GCVE-0-2026-14979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-17 19:49 – Updated: 2026-07-17 19:49
VLAI
Title
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion attack
Summary
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.3 ( Interim Fix 001 through ) Interim Fix 021, 7.1.0 ( Interim Fix 001 through ) Interim Fix 009, and 7.2.0 and 7.2.0 Interim Fix 001 DOORS could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to improper handling of XML entity expansion.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
Assigner
ibm
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7279963 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Affected: 7.0.3 ( Interim Fix 001 , ≤ ) Interim Fix 021 (semver)
Affected: 7.1.0 ( Interim Fix 001 , ≤ ) Interim Fix 009 (semver)
Affected: 7.2.0 and 7.2.0 Interim Fix 001
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:engineering_lifecycle_management:7.0.3:interim_fix_001:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:engineering_lifecycle_management:7.0.3:interim_fix_021:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:engineering_lifecycle_management:7.1.0:interim_fix_001:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:engineering_lifecycle_management:7.1.0:interim_fix_009:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:engineering_lifecycle_management:7.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:engineering_lifecycle_management:7.2.0:interim_fix_001:*:*:*:*:*:*
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