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CVE-2026-9171 (GCVE-0-2026-9171)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-17 18:26 – Updated: 2026-07-30 15:47
VLAI
Title
Vulnerabilities in IBM WebSphere Application affects IBM PowerVM Novalink.
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-21 01:51 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7280226 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM PowerVM Novalink Affected: 2.2.02.2.12.2.1.1
Affected: 2.3.02.3.0.12.3.12.3.2
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_novalink:2.2.02.2.12.2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_novalink:2.3.02.3.0.12.3.12.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.