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CVE-2013-5372

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-5372 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the XML4J parser used by IBM WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus. A remote attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted XML document that causes excessive memory consumption due to entity expansion. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_message_broker:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_message_broker:6.1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_message_broker:6.1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_message_broker:6.1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_message_broker:6.1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0281 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.4Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.15.0-1jpp.1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.15.0-1jpp.1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.15.0-1jpp.1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.6.0-1jpp.1.el5_10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.15.0-1jpp.1.el5_10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.16.4-1jpp.1.el5_10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.6.0-1jpp.1.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.15.0-1jpp.1.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.16.4-1jpp.1.el6_4
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-5372Moderate

JDK: XML4J xml entity expansion excessive memory use (XML)

Nov 5, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00013.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1507.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1508.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1509.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1793.html
secunia.com / advisories/56338
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/86662
ibm.com / developerworks/java/jdk/alerts
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
Vendor Advisory
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss