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CVE-2026-9171

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
Publication date:
17/07/2026
Last modified:
11/08/2026

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server Liberty are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by sending a specially-crafted request. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to consume memory resources.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_novalink:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_novalink:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_novalink:2.2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_novalink:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_novalink:2.3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_novalink:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_novalink:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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