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IBM Process Mining CVE-2026-93005

| EUVDEUVD-2026-119738 MEDIUM
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770)
2026-11-08 ibm GHSA-pm78-f3p2-r39w
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate to IBM Process Mining (PR:L)
  2. Delivery
    Trigger email-notification feature repeatedly
  3. Exploit
    Bypass absent rate limit (CWE-770)
  4. Execution
    Flood targeted recipient mailboxes
  5. Impact
    Denial of service via email exhaustion

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource allocation limits
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Requires an authenticated account on IBM Process Mining (versions 2.0.0 through 2.2.1) with access to a feature that generates email notifications; exploitation consists of invoking that notification path at a rate the application fails to limit (CWE-770). Limiting factors: the attacker must hold valid credentials (PR:L - this is not remote-unauthenticated), and impact is confined to availability (spamming targeted recipients / mail infrastructure) with no confidentiality or integrity effect. Realistic risk is further bounded by whatever external mail gateway throttling or quotas sit in front of the Process Mining mailer, which the CVE does not address.

Impact

This is a moderate-severity, lower-priority issue rather than an urgent one. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) scores 6.5 and shows network-reachable, low-complexity exploitation, but critically requires existing privileges (PR:L) - an attacker must already be an authenticated user of IBM Process Mining. The only impact is availability (C:N/I:N/A:H); there is no confidentiality or integrity exposure, consistent with CWE-770 (missing rate limiting / resource exhaustion). No EPSS score was provided in the input, the CVE is not listed in CISA KEV, and no public exploit or PoC reference is present, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The vendor-assigned A:H appears generous for a flaw whose concrete effect is email flooding to targeted recipients rather than a full compromise of Process Mining itself - see assessed_cvss_vector for an independent view. The vuln.today decision label of 'this_month' aligns with this signal set: a genuine but non-emergency fix. Net: a real but authenticated, abuse-of-feature DoS, appropriate to remediate on a normal patch cycle, not a drop-everything priority.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An authenticated IBM Process Mining user (versions 2.0.0 through 2.2.1) abuses an email-notification-triggering feature that lacks rate limiting, repeatedly invoking it to generate a flood of notification emails aimed at chosen recipients. Because attack complexity is low (AC:L) and no user interaction is required, the attacker can script the requests to overwhelm victim mailboxes or the mail-sending infrastructure. No public PoC or exploit code is identified in the available data.

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AnalysisAIv1 – Nov 08, 2026

An authenticated denial-of-service in IBM Process Mining 2.0.0 through 2.2.1 allows a valid user to drive the email-notification feature without sufficient rate limiting, flooding targeted recipients and the surrounding mail infrastructure. The issue is availability-only (CWE-770), requires a low-privileged account (PR:L), and is assessed as a moderate-severity, lower-priority item rather than an urgent one. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and IBM has published a vendor fix via its support advisory.

RemediationAI

Patch available per vendor advisory: IBM's support node at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7294875 is the authoritative source for the fixed release, and the supplied data does not state an exact fix version, so verify the target build in the advisory before upgrading. The application-level missing rate limit is only fully addressed by that vendor update. The independent assessment notes that outbound mail-gateway throttling or recipient quotas in front of Process Mining bound the practical impact; tightening those quotas can reduce blast radius while the update is staged, with the trade-off that legitimate notification email may be delayed or dropped if quotas are too tight. Restricting access to notification-generating features to trusted accounts is consistent with the PR:L prerequisite but does not repair the missing rate limit.

Affected VersionsENISA

Process Mining 2.0.0 ≤2.2.1

Affected Packages

euvd process_mining no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

IBM Process Mining 2.0.0 through 2.2.1 exposes an email-notification path that does not sufficiently rate-limit requests. The root cause is CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling): an authenticated user with access to a feature that generates notifications can invoke it repeatedly, causing the application to send excessive email to targeted recipients. The CVE CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) confirms network reachability, low attack complexity, and a requirement for a valid low-privileged account, while the independent assessment bounds availability impact to A:L; confidentiality and integrity effects are not described. The trigger is the application's notification workflow rather than memory corruption, injection, or a remote-unauthenticated path. External SMTP relay or mail-gateway throttling is outside the CVE but can bound the volume that reaches recipients.

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Severity by source

Vendor (ibm) PRIMARY MEDIUM
NVD 6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
vuln.today AI 4.3 MEDIUM

Network-reachable and low-complexity but requires an authenticated user (PR:L); impact is email flooding of recipients, a limited availability degradation, so A:L rather than the vendor's A:H.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/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
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

DescriptionNVD

IBM Process Mining 2.0.0 through 2.2.1 could allow an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service through insufficient rate limiting of email notifications, resulting in excessive emails being sent to targeted recipients.

Threat Intelligence Overview

Prevalence
Low
niche enterprise process-mining analytics product, limited deployment footprint
Social Media
1
Sightings
Data Quality
3 sources
Confidence: Low

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS N/A
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

32
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +32
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.

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