CVE-2021-20502: IBM Engineering Insights

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Jazz Foundation Products are 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: 198059.

Affected products

• IBM Engineering Insights: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only
• IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management: version 7.0 only
• IBM Engineering Requirements Quality Assistant On-Premises: affected versions not specified
• IBM Engineering Workflow Management: version 7.0.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only
• IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager: version 6.0.2 only; version 6.0.6 only; version 6.0.6.1 only
• IBM Rational Team Concert: version 6.0.6 only; version 6.0.6.1 only; version 6.0.6.2 only

Published 2021-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.