CVE detail

CVE-2021-20453 — CVE-2021-20453

Published 2021-04-20 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor ibm · Product websphere_application_server · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

8.2

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0256

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

84.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

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.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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