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CVE-2021-20502

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-20502 is an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability affecting several IBM Jazz Foundation Products, including Engineering Insights and Workflow Management. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.1) allows a remote, authenticated attacker to expose sensitive information or cause denial-of-service by consuming memory resources. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:engineering_insights:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:engineering_insights:7.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:engineering_insights:7.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:engineering_lifecycle_management:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:engineering_requirements_quality_assistant_on-premises:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.1HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0140 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/198059
VDB EntryVendor Advisory
ibm.com / support/pages/node/6437579
PatchVendor Advisory