Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate to IBM Process Mining (PR:L)
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DeliveryTrigger email-notification feature repeatedly
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ExploitBypass absent rate limit (CWE-770)
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ExecutionFlood targeted recipient mailboxes
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ImpactDenial of service via email exhaustion
Vulnerability Assessment
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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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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – 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.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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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
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
Primary rating from Vendor (ibm).
CVSS VectorNVD
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.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
EUVD-2026-119738
GHSA-pm78-f3p2-r39w
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