CVE-2017-1556: IBM API Connect

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM API Connect 5.0.7.0 through 5.0.7.2 is vulnerable to a regular expression attack that could allow an authenticated attacker to use a regex and cause the system to slow or hang. IBM X-Force ID: 131546.

Affected products

• IBM API Connect: version 5.0.7.0 only; version 5.0.7.1 only; version 5.0.7.2 only

Published 2017-09-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.