CVE-2018-1588: IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Jazz Foundation (IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager 5.0 through 5.02 and 6.0 through 6.0.6) 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: 143501.

Affected products

• IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager: from 5.0, up to and including 5.0.2; from 6.0, up to and including 6.0.6

Published 2018-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.