CVE-2019-4424: IBM Business Automation Workflow

High severity, CVSS 8.2. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Business Automation Workflow 18.0.0.0, 18.0.0.1, 18.0.0.2, 19.0.0.1, and 19.0.0.2 is vulnerable to an 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: 162770.

Affected products

  • IBM Business Automation Workflow: from 18.0.0.0, up to and including 19.0.0.2
  • IBM Business Process Manager: from 7.5.0.0, up to and including 7.5.1.2; from 8.0.0.0, up to and including 8.0.1.3; from 8.5.0.0, up to and including 8.5.0.2; version 8.5.5.0 only; version 8.5.6.0 only; version 8.5.7.0 only; …

Published 2019-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.