SB2025051934 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Maximo Application Suite - Manage Component
Published: May 19, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5000)
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A local user can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted XML code and view contents of arbitrary files on the system or initiate requests to external systems.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to view contents of arbitrary file on the server or perform network scanning of internal and external infrastructure.
2) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12626)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to infinite loops while parsing specially crafted WMF, EMF, MSG and macros and out of Memory exceptions while parsing specially crafted DOC, PPT and XLS. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash.
3) XML Entity Expansion (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5644)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A local user can pass a specially crafted OOXML file to the affected application and perform a denial of service attack.
4) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12415)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input when using the tool XSSFExportToXml to convert user-provided Microsoft Excel documents. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted XML code to the affected application and read files from the local filesystem or from internal network resources on the system or initiate requests to external systems.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to view contents of arbitrary file on the server or perform network scanning of internal and external infrastructure.
5) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26336)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the HMEF package. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted TNEF file to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.