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CVE-2020-5003
IBM Financial Transaction Manager 3.2.4 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
IBM Financial Transaction Manager 3.2.4 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 192956.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/A:L/UI:N/PR:N/I:N/C:H/AV:N/AC:H/S:U/RC:C/E:U/RL:O |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Obtain Information
- CWE-611 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-611 and its CVEs
Affected products
IBM · Financial Transaction Manager
- affected 3.2.4
References (2)
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6462861 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ibm-ftm-cve20205003-xxe (192956) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-5003)Record last updated .