CVE-2026-12752
HighCVSS 7.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk41th percentile - higher than 41% of all known CVEs
Summary
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional 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.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can access sensitive data or cause memory exhaustion leading to denial of service. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely without authentication.
Recommendation
Apply the available IBM security updates for IBM Business Automation Workflow. Until patched, consider disabling external XML entity processing in the configuration.
Other vulnerabilities in IBM Business Automation Workflow
See all- CVE-2026-12742Medium
IBM Business Automation Workflow (containers and traditional) lacks authorization controls, allowing an authenticated attacker to trigger restricted import actions. The flaw stems from insufficient enforcement of permissions on import operations.
- CVE-2026-12756High
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional 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.
- CVE-2026-13107High
IBM Business Automation Workflow (containers and traditional) may use programming model artifacts that are vulnerable to XML Entity Injection attacks by default.
- CVE-2026-12730Low
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional 26.0.0, 25.0.0 through 25.0.0 Interim Fix 005, 24.0.1 through 24.0.1 Interim Fix 007, and 24.0.0 through 24.0.0 Interim Fix 009 fails to properly verify that the hostname matches the server certificate, potentially allowing connections to an attacker-controlled server.
Original NVD description (English source)
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional 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 resource.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS