CVE-2025-12531

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Description

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.0.0 through 11.7.1.6 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.

Severity

CRITICAL

CVSS score

9.1 (v3.1)

Vulnerability status

Analyzed

Source identifier

[email protected]

Published

2025-11-03 20:17:06.247000

Last modified

2026-10-18 21:10:00.120000

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