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IBM Business Automation Workflow EUVDEUVD-2026-32521

| CVE-2026-1248 MEDIUM
Error Message Information Leak (CWE-209)
2026-05-27 psirt@us.ibm.com GHSA-gq2r-qh4m-2g7x
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: us
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Access
    Obtain low-privilege application credentials
  2. Delivery
    Authenticate to Business Automation Workflow over network
  3. Exploit
    Submit malformed or error-triggering workflow request
  4. Execution
    Observe verbose error response containing database schema details
  5. Impact
    Map internal database structure for use in downstream attack

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A10:2025 - Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions
ASVS 5.0
V16 - Security Logging and Error Handling Error message sanitization
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Discovery

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

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires a valid authenticated session with at minimum low-privilege access to the IBM Business Automation Workflow application, as confirmed by the CVSS vector PR:L. The vulnerability is reachable over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and requires no user interaction beyond the attacker's own actions. Both containerized and traditional deployment modes are affected - no special non-default configuration is required within those environments. Exploitation is limited by the authentication prerequisite; unauthenticated external actors cannot directly trigger the information leak. The impact is bounded to database structural metadata (schema reconnaissance), not row-level data exfiltration.

Impact

The overall risk is moderate-to-low. The CVSS base score of 4.3 reflects limited confidentiality impact (C:L) with no integrity or availability consequence. PR:L confirms that exploitation requires at minimum a valid low-privilege account, meaningfully narrowing the attacker population compared to unauthenticated vulnerabilities. AC:L indicates no special conditions or timing are needed once authenticated. The SSVC framework independently corroborates this posture: Exploitation is rated 'none' (no known exploitation activity), the attack is assessed as not automatable at scale, and technical impact is partial. There is no KEV listing and no public POC. The primary real-world risk is reconnaissance enablement - an attacker who already holds a low-privilege account could use harvested schema details to craft more precise SQL injection payloads or map the data layer for lateral movement. On its own this vulnerability is unlikely to be weaponized independently, but it raises exposure when combined with injection-class weaknesses elsewhere in the application.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An authenticated low-privilege user - such as a business analyst or process participant with a standard application account - submits a malformed or boundary-case workflow request designed to trigger an unhandled database exception. The application returns a verbose error response containing internal database structure details, which the attacker records. No public POC exists at time of analysis, but the attack requires only network access and a valid credential.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.0% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – May 27, 2026

Information disclosure in IBM Business Automation Workflow (containers and traditional deployments) exposes internal database schema details through application error messages to authenticated low-privilege users. Affecting versions across the 24.0.0, 24.0.1, 25.0.0, and 25.0.1 release lines, a network-accessible authenticated attacker can deliberately trigger error conditions to harvest database structure information - table names, column names, or schema layout - without needing elevated permissions. No public exploit code exists and no active exploitation is confirmed; SSVC assessment classifies this as non-automatable with partial technical impact, consistent with its limited confidentiality scope.

RemediationAI

Consult the IBM security advisory at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7271445 for the specific interim fix or cumulative patch that resolves this issue; the input data identifies the upper boundary of affected versions (e.g., 24.0.0 IF 008, 24.0.1 IF 006, 25.0.0 IF 003, 25.0.1) but does not explicitly name a released fix version - the advisory should be treated as the authoritative source for the remediation target version. Until a patch is applied, a practical compensating control is to restrict authenticated access to the Business Automation Workflow application to only trusted internal users and service accounts, reducing the population of principals who could trigger and observe verbose error messages. Additionally, deploying a web application firewall or reverse proxy configured to suppress or genericize detailed error responses at the network perimeter can prevent schema details from reaching clients even if the underlying defect is not yet patched; note this mitigation does not eliminate the root cause and may complicate legitimate error diagnostics. Log aggregation and monitoring for anomalous error-trigger patterns from authenticated sessions can provide detection coverage in the interim.

Affected VersionsENISA

Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional 24.0.0 ≤24.0.0 Interim Fix 008
Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional 25.0.0 ≤25.0.0 Interim Fix 003
Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional 25.0.1
Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional 24.0.1 ≤24.0.1 Interim Fix 006

Affected Packages

euvd business_automation_workflow_containers_and_traditional no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The vulnerability is classified under CWE-209 (Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information), a well-understood class of defect where application exception handlers return internal implementation details to clients rather than sanitized, generic error responses. IBM Business Automation Workflow, a BPM and case management platform available in both containerized (Kubernetes/OpenShift) and traditional on-premise deployment models, fails to strip database-layer metadata from error payloads surfaced to end users. The exposed data is structural - schema artifacts rather than row-level data - but still constitutes sensitive reconnaissance material. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) confirms the flaw is reachable over the network with low complexity, requires only a low-privilege authenticated session, and impacts confidentiality alone within the application's own security scope.

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Severity by source

Vendor (us) PRIMARY 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Primary rating from Vendor (us) · only source for this CVE.

CVSS VectorVendor: us

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

DescriptionCVE.org

IBM Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional may leak information about its database structure in error messages.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.0%
Top 93% exploitable
Data Quality
6 sources
Confidence: High

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 0.0%
Patch available No
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
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

22
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +22
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

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