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Financial Transaction Manager CVE-2026-17646

| EUVDEUVD-2026-84961 MEDIUM
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (CWE-611)
2026-09-22 ibm GHSA-pmw6-58jm-24g5
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Severity by source

Vendor (ibm) PRIMARY
HIGH
qualitative
NVD
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI
7.7 HIGH

Remote authenticated XXE (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L) causing confidentiality-only disclosure (C:H); S:C retained as XXE can reach out-of-band/internal resources, but I set I:N as the description names no integrity impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (ibm).

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Severity Changed
Oct 08, 2026 - 13:22 NVD
HIGH MEDIUM
CVSS changed
Oct 08, 2026 - 13:22 NVD
8.5 (HIGH) 6.5 (MEDIUM)
Metadata Corrected
Sep 22, 2026 - 22:40 vuln.today
tag: Openshift added
Analysis Generated
Sep 22, 2026 - 22:38 vuln.today
CVE Published
Sep 22, 2026 - 21:42 nvd
HIGH 8.5

DescriptionNVD

IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to improper restriction of XML external entity references.

AnalysisAI

IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for Red Hat OpenShift contains an XML external entity (XXE) flaw that lets an authenticated, low-privilege user who can reach an XML-accepting endpoint coerce the application's XML parser into resolving attacker-supplied external entity references, resulting in disclosure of sensitive information such as local files or internal service responses. Per the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C) the attack is network-reachable but requires a valid low-privilege account and an application code path that parses untrusted XML with external entity/DTD resolution left enabled, and our independent assessment scores the impact as confidentiality-only (C:H/I:N/A:N) rather than the vendor's mixed confidentiality/integrity rating. …

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Vulnerability AssessmentAI

Exploitation Requires an authenticated (low-privilege) account on IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift and an application code path that parses attacker-supplied XML with a parser that does not disable external entity/DTD resolution. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment.
Risk Assessment This is a mid-severity, config- and access-gated information-disclosure flaw rather than an urgent priority. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in.
Exploit Scenario Full exploit scenario with step-by-step reproduction available after sign-in.
Remediation Patch available per vendor advisory: IBM documents the fix for this XXE issue in its support bulletin at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288641, so the primary action is to apply the FTM for Red Hat OpenShift release or fix pack referenced there for your installed version and to redeploy the updated container images across all OpenShift nodes; the supplied data does not include an explicit version number or GitHub PR/commit, so confirm the exact fixed build from that bulletin rather than inferring one. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report.

Recommended ActionAI

Within 24 hours, confirm whether IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Red Hat OpenShift is deployed in your environment, identify all XML-accepting endpoints, and apply the vendor patch per IBM's advisory (Patch available per vendor advisory; no exact fix version was provided in the input). …

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