CVE-2024-49781

Summary

CVE-2024-49781 is a vulnerability affecting IBM OpenPages with Watson versions 8.3 and 9.0. This issue allows for XML external entity injection (XXE) attacks, enabling remote attackers to expose sensitive information or consume significant memory resources during the processing of XML data. Successful exploitation could potentially lead to serious data breaches or system instability. IBM has released patches to address the vulnerability, and it is recommended that affected organizations apply these updates as soon as possible to mitigate risk.

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