CVE-2024-45072: IBM WebSphere Application Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: from 8.5.0.0, up to and including 8.5.5.26; from 9.0.0.0, up to and including 9.0.5.21

Published 2024-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.