CVE-2016-0245: IBM WebSphere Portal

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XML parser in IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0.x before 8.0.0.1 CF20 and 8.5.x before 8.5.0.0 CF10 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service via an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Portal: version 8.0.0.0 only; version 8.0.0.1 only; version 8.5.0.0 only

Published 2016-02-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.