CVE-2026-9002 — IBM WebSphere eXtremes Scale is affected by uncontrolled resource consumption when XDF is enabled
IBM WebSphere Extreme Scale 8.6.1.0 through 8.6.1.6 could allow an adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service due to improper validation in the XDF decoder. The application …
Published: 2026-06-30 · CVSS: 6.5 · CVSS 3.1
IBM WebSphere Extreme Scale 8.6.1.0 through 8.6.1.6 could allow an adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service due to improper validation in the XDF decoder. The application processes deeply nested Protocol Buffers messages and attacker-controlled length prefixes without sufficient bounds checking, which may allow an attacker on the same network to trigger a StackOverflowError or OutOfMemoryError, resulting in a crash of the WebSphere Application Server JVM.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7