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AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Adjacent vector and low-privilege requirement confirmed by restConnector admin API access; pure availability impact with no confidentiality or integrity dimension.
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CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 26.0.0.8 is affected by a denial of service caused by insecure deserialization. A low-privileged, administrative user could exploit this vulnerability to consume system resources when the restConnector-2.0 feature is enabled.
AnalysisAI
Insecure deserialization in IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 26.0.0.8 enables a low-privileged administrative user to trigger unbounded resource consumption, resulting in denial of service against the application server. The attack requires the restConnector-2.0 administrative feature to be enabled and the attacker to have adjacent network access with valid low-privilege credentials. …
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| Exploitation | Exploitation requires three concurrent conditions: (1) the restConnector-2.0 feature must be explicitly enabled in the Liberty server configuration - this is not a default-on feature; (2) the attacker must possess valid low-privilege Liberty administrative credentials (PR:L per CVSS vector); and (3) the attacker must have adjacent network access to the management port (AV:A per CVSS), meaning they must be on the same network segment, VLAN, or connected administrative subnet - direct internet exploitation is not possible. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment. |
| Risk Assessment | The CVSS 5.7 Medium score reflects several meaningful constraints that reduce real-world risk below the raw availability impact suggests. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in. |
| Exploit Scenario | An attacker with a low-privilege administrative account on the same network segment as a Liberty server that has restConnector-2.0 enabled crafts a malicious deserialization payload and submits it to the REST management endpoint. The Liberty JVM processes the payload, entering a resource-intensive deserialization cycle that exhausts CPU or heap memory, causing the application server to become unresponsive and denying service to legitimate application users. … |
| Remediation | A patch is available from IBM per the vendor advisory at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283485 - consult this page for the exact fixed version, as a specific patched release number was not confirmed in the input data. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report. |
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Same weakness CWE-502 – Deserialization of Untrusted Data
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EUVD-2026-58359
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