Security Bulletin: XML entity expansion vulnerabilities in Rational ClearQuest (CVE-2014-3104)

Summary

IBM Rational ClearQuest is vulnerable to XML entity expansion attacks. These attacks could cause a denial of service.

Vulnerability Details

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CVE ID: CVE-2014-3104

**Description:**IBM Rational ClearQuest is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly detect recursion during entity expansion by the XML parser. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references to consume all available memory resources.

CVSS Base Score: 5.0 **CVSS Temporal Score:**See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94311&gt; for the current score *CVSS Environmental Score:**Undefined CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

ClearQuest version

| Status
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8.0.1 through 8.0.1.4| Affected
8.0 through 8.0.0.11| Affected
7.1.2 through 7.1.2.14| Affected
7.1.0.x, 7.1.1.x (all versions and fix packs)| Affected

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to one of the following releases:

Note: 7.1.2.15 inter-operates with all 7.1.1.x systems and can be installed in the same way as 7.1.1.x fix packs.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None