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IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion attack
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
N L N N U N N H 7.5 .0039 32.0 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.3 ( Interim Fix 001 – —
TIMELINE
Jul 7 Reserved by ibm
Jul 17 Published (CNA: ibm)
Aug 11 RESCORED — CVE-2026-14979 (IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management). CVSS 5.3 → 7.5 (NVD).
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.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| July 7, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by ibm |
| July 17, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: ibm) |
| August 11, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2026-14979 (IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management). CVSS 5.3 → 7.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| IBM | Engineering Lifecycle Management | — | 7.0.3 ( Interim Fix 001 | — |
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