Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessReach public reverse proxy endpoint
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DeliveryCraft request with injected parameters
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ExploitProxy forwards tainted params downstream
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ExecutionThird-party service processes injected values
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ImpactIntegrity of downstream request compromised
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Input neutralization, injection prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires that the IBM Security Verify Identity Access / Security Verify Access reverse proxy (WebSEAL) component be deployed and actively proxying requests to back-end or third-party services - the injection occurs in the proxy's construction of onward requests. Exploitation is unauthenticated and network-reachable (PR:N, AV:N, UI:N), but AC:H reflects that impact depends on how the specific downstream third-party service interprets the injected parameters; the flaw itself does not directly compromise the proxy's own confidentiality/availability. Limiting factors: value is realized only when a downstream service acts on the injected parameters, and the target must be running an affected version below the listed interim-fix levels. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-priority issue, not an urgent one. The CVSS vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N, 6.5 Medium) shows a network-reachable, unauthenticated flaw with high integrity impact but only low confidentiality and no availability impact - consistent with parameter injection that lets an attacker manipulate the content/integrity of requests the reverse proxy forwards to third-party services rather than directly reading data or crashing the system. The AC:H rating is the key mitigating signal: successful exploitation depends on the specific behavior of the downstream third-party service and how the injected parameters are interpreted, so it is not a trivial one-shot attack. Exploitation-likelihood signals reinforce lower urgency: EPSS is 0.15% (5th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit code is identified - no public exploit identified at time of analysis. No SSVC decision data is provided in the input. Signals are consistent (medium CVSS, low EPSS, no KEV/POC all point the same direction), so despite the I:H component this reads as a real-but-non-critical hardening issue rather than an actively exploited emergency. A patch is available from IBM, making remediation straightforward. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote unauthenticated attacker crafts an HTTP request to the IBM Verify Identity Access reverse proxy (WebSEAL) containing specially-formatted parameters that are not properly sanitized before the proxy constructs an onward request to a back-end or third-party service. The injected parameters alter the semantics of that downstream request - for example smuggling additional query/body parameters - potentially causing the third-party service to act on attacker-controlled input. No public exploit code is known, and the AC:H rating reflects that success depends on the downstream service's parameter handling. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 20, 2026
Parameter injection in the IBM Security Verify Access (Verify Identity Access) reverse proxy - the WebSEAL component - lets unauthenticated, network-reachable attackers have crafted parameters carried into requests the proxy constructs toward back-end or third-party services, potentially manipulating how those downstream services interpret the call. Only deployments below the listed interim-fix levels (Verify Identity Access 11.0.0 through 11.0.3 Interim Fix 001 and Security Verify Access 10.0.0 through 10.0.9.2 Interim Fix 001, plus their container variants) are affected, and realized impact depends heavily on the behaviour of the downstream service, which is why this is scored AC:H with a limited confidentiality but high integrity effect rather than an urgent, broadly weaponizable flaw. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is only 0.15% (5th percentile), so this is a moderate-priority issue to schedule rather than an emergency; the vendor has published patch guidance.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: IBM documents fixes for this issue in its support advisory at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7286188, so the primary action is to move the proxy above the affected interim-fix levels - i.e. update Verify Identity Access 11.0.0 through 11.0.3 Interim Fix 001 and Verify Identity Access Container 11.0.0 through 11.0.3 Interim Fix 001, and Security Verify Access 10.0.0 through 10.0.9.2 Interim Fix 001 and Security Verify Access Container 10.0.0 through 10.0.9.2 Interim Fix 001, to the vendor-supplied fix level named in that advisory; do not assume a version number beyond what IBM publishes, and restart the WebSEAL/container instances after applying it. Where patching must be staged, the practical compensating controls follow directly from the fact that the flaw only matters when injected parameters reach a service that acts on them: restrict who can reach the WebSEAL proxy listeners with network ACLs or a WAF in front of it and strip or reject unexpected parameters, accepting the trade-off that legitimate clients passing unusual or unvalidated parameters may break; harden the downstream third-party and back-end services so they validate, canonicalize, and reject unexpected parameters themselves, which does not fix the proxy but removes the integrity payoff attackers are after; and temporarily disable or limit proxy forwarding paths to third-party services that cannot validate input, at the cost of losing that integration until patching is complete. Monitor WebSEAL and downstream logs for anomalous parameter patterns, since exploitation is unauthenticated and may be silent, and note that with EPSS at 0.15% (5th percentile) and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, this can be scheduled within a normal patch cycle rather than treated as an emergency.
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The affected technology is IBM's WebSEAL reverse proxy, the access-management front end shipped in Security Verify Access (formerly Verify Identity Access) and its container editions. WebSEAL terminates client connections and re-issues requests on behalf of the client to protected back-end applications and to third-party services, which means it re-assembles request parameters as part of that forwarding logic. CWE-74 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component, i.e. generic injection) describes the root cause: the proxy does not adequately neutralize attacker-controlled parameter material before embedding it into the onward request, so special elements supplied by the client can be interpreted as structure by the receiving service. The assessed vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N is consistent with that root cause - the attack surface is network-reachable and needs no authentication or user interaction, but integrity (I:H) is the real exposure because the downstream service may act on the injected parameters, while the proxy's own confidentiality and availability are largely untouched (C:L/A:N). The CPE data confirms the scope spans both on-premises and containerized builds: ibm:verify_identity_access, ibm:security_verify_access, ibm:verify_identity_access_container, and ibm:security_verify_access_container. EUVD records the affected ranges as Verify Identity Access 11.0.0 through 11.0.3 Interim Fix 001, Verify Identity Access Container 11.0.0 through 11.0.3 Interim Fix 001, Security Verify Access 10.0.0 through 10.0.9.2 Interim Fix 001, and Security Verify Access Container 10.0.0 through 10.0.9.2 Interim Fix 001.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Unauthenticated network-facing proxy (PR:N/AV:N); AC:H because impact hinges on downstream service behavior; injection corrupts request integrity (I:H) with minor info exposure (C:L) and no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (ibm).
CVSS VectorVendor: ibm
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2DescriptionCVE.org
IBM Security Verify Identity Access reverse proxy may allow parameters to be injected in requests to third party services.
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Attack Technique
Code injection occurs when an application accepts user input and passes it directly into a language interpreter or evaluator without proper sanitization.
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