CVE-2012-5769

medium

Published 2013-01-01 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.8

Description

IBM SPSS Modeler 14.0, 14.1, 14.2 through FP3, and 15.0 before FP2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, and possibly send HTTP requests to intranet servers or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption), via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	spss_modeler	`14.0.0.0`
ibm	spss_modeler	`14.0.0.1`
ibm	spss_modeler	`14.0.0.2`
ibm	spss_modeler	`14.1.0.0`
ibm	spss_modeler	`14.1.0.1`
ibm	spss_modeler	`14.1.0.2`
ibm	spss_modeler	`14.2.0.0`
ibm	spss_modeler	`14.2.0.1`
ibm	spss_modeler	`14.2.0.2`
ibm	spss_modeler	`14.2.0.3`
ibm	spss_modeler	`15.0.0.0`
ibm	spss_modeler	`15.0.0.1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.