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CVE-2019-4391
HCL AppScan Standard is vulnerable to XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data
- 8.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 31% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
HCL AppScan Standard is vulnerable to XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.2.
Affected products
HCL AppScan Standard Edition
- affected HCL AppScan Standard versions 9.x and earlier
References
References1
- https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0077917 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-13998 (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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