CVE-2016-9724: IBM Qradar Security Information And Event Manager

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM QRadar 7.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources. IBM Reference #: 1999537.

Affected products

• IBM Qradar Security Information And Event Manager: version 7.2.0 only; version 7.2.1 only; version 7.2.2 only; version 7.2.3 only; version 7.2.4 only; version 7.2.5 only; …

Published 2017-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.