CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-3340

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Published: Sep 01, 2020 | Modified: Sep 03, 2020
CVSS 3.x
4.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

IBM InfoSphere Guardium 8.0, 8.01, and 8.2 is vulnerable to XML external entity injection, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 78291.

Weakness

The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Infosphere_guardium Ibm 8.0 (including) 8.0 (including)
Infosphere_guardium Ibm 8.0.1 (including) 8.0.1 (including)
Infosphere_guardium Ibm 8.2 (including) 8.2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References