CVE-2026-14979IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion attack
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.55%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 54% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.3 ( Interim Fix 001 through ) Interim Fix 021, 7.1.0 ( Interim Fix 001 through ) Interim Fix 009, and 7.2.0 and 7.2.0 Interim Fix 001 DOORS could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to improper handling of XML entity expansion.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 10 days later
· 10 days later
Published
- 11 days later
· 11 days 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) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.55% · top 54% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
IBM · Engineering Lifecycle Management
- affected 7.0.3 ( Interim Fix 001 – ≤ ) Interim Fix 021
- affected 7.1.0 ( Interim Fix 001 – ≤ ) Interim Fix 009
- affected 7.2.0 and 7.2.0 Interim Fix 001
What to do
Solution: IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to iFixes detailed below: Affected Product(s)Version(s)Remediation/Fix/Instructions IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation 7.0.3Download and install iFix022 https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation 7.1.0Download and install iFix010 https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation 7.2.0Download and install iFix002 https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes
References
References1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7279963 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatch
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-2026-45300 (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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