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Security Verify Access EUVDEUVD-2026-95271

| CVE-2026-78388 HIGH
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE-352)
2026-10-08 ibm GHSA-jjmx-x2x9-rhq6
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Access
    Host malicious CSRF page/email
  2. Delivery
    Lure authenticated admin to visit
  3. Exploit
    Browser auto-submits forged request
  4. Execution
    Appliance executes action in admin's session
  5. Impact
    Unauthorized configuration/account change

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookies
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access

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

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires an active, authenticated session to the IBM Security Verify Access / Verify Identity Access web/management interface AND user interaction (UI:R): a logged-in user - most impactfully an administrator - must be tricked into loading attacker-controlled web content (malicious link, email, or page) while that session is valid. The attacker needs no credentials of their own (PR:N) and no special appliance configuration is named in the description; the limiting factors are the need for a concurrently authenticated victim, the social-engineering/user-interaction step, and network reachability of the targeted management endpoint (highest risk where that interface is internet-exposed). The high impact presumes the forged request targets privileged state-changing actions.

Impact

The CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) rates this CSRF (CWE-352) as High, but several signals temper the real-world urgency. No EPSS score, no KEV listing, and no public POC were provided in the input, so by precision rules this is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis' - there is no evidence of active or automated exploitation. The CVSS vector's PR:N reflects that the ATTACKER needs no credentials, but the UI:R requirement plus the inherent nature of CSRF means success depends entirely on luring an already-authenticated administrator/user of the appliance into visiting a malicious page while their session is live - a meaningful real-world limiter. The C:H/I:H/A:H impacts appear to assume the forged request triggers high-privilege administrative actions; the terse description ('malicious and unauthorized actions') does not itself confirm full CIA compromise, so these impact ratings are vendor-assigned and should be treated as the worst case rather than verified fact. Net: this is a genuine, patch-worthy flaw in an enterprise IAM product, but it is a user-interaction-gated CSRF with no exploitation evidence - prioritize patching of internet-exposed management interfaces, but it is not an emergency on the level of an unauthenticated RCE.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker crafts a web page or email containing a hidden, auto-submitting form (or image/script request) targeting a state-changing endpoint of the IBM Security Verify Access / Verify Identity Access management interface. While an administrator is authenticated to the appliance, they are socially engineered into visiting the attacker's page, and their browser silently submits the forged request with their valid session cookies, performing an unauthorized administrative action. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, and success requires the victim to be logged in and to interact with attacker-controlled content.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
Patch available 0.1% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv2 – Oct 09, 2026

Cross-site request forgery in IBM Security Verify Access 10.0 through 10.0.9.2 and IBM Verify Identity Access 11.0 through 11.0.3 (including their container editions) lets a remote attacker who lures a logged-in user into loading attacker-controlled content submit unauthorized, privileged state-changing requests through that victim's authenticated session; CVSS 3.1 rates it 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The attacker needs no credentials of their own, but successful abuse depends on a concurrently authenticated victim - most damagingly an administrator - plus a social-engineering/user-interaction step, so exposure is greatest where the management interface is internet-reachable. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and there is no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV); a vendor patch is available per IBM's advisory.

Earlier versions of this analysis (1)
v1 Oct 08, 2026 - 21:40 CVSS 4.3

Cross-site request forgery in IBM Security Verify Access 10.0 through 10.0.9.2 and IBM Verify Identity Access 11.0 through 11.0.3 allows a remote attacker (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R) to cause a logged-in administrator or user to submit a forged request that the appliance treats as trusted, resulting in limited unauthorized integrity changes (I:L) with no confidentiality or availability impact. Exploitation is not server-to-server and depends on social-engineering an authenticated victim with an active session into visiting attacker-controlled content that auto-submits the crafted request, which is the sole reason the base score stays at 4.3 despite the unauthenticated network attack vector. At time of analysis there is no public exploit identified, and no evidence of confirmed active exploitation (no CISA KEV listing); the primary risk driver is the large number of internet-facing Verify Access deployments in identity-federation roles.

RemediationAI

Patch available per vendor advisory - apply the fixed release from IBM's Security Verify Access / Verify Identity Access bulletin at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7291628; the exact fixed build numbers are not enumerated in the available data, so consult the advisory for the precise upgrade target for each 10.0.x and 11.0.x (and container image) branch. Until patched, the highest-value compensating control is to remove the management interface from untrusted networks: restrict it to a dedicated administrative VLAN or jump host, block external reachability with firewall/ACL rules, and terminate remote administrative access through a VPN or bastion (trade-off: added operational friction and a single choke point that must itself be hardened). Shorten administrative session lifetimes and idle timeouts, and require re-authentication before sensitive changes, which reduces but does not eliminate the window for a forged request (trade-off: more frequent logins for administrators). Where supported, enforce strict SameSite cookie attributes and require browsers used for administration to be dedicated and not used for general web browsing or email, lowering the chance an administrator loads attacker-controlled content while authenticated (trade-off: policy and user-training overhead, not a code-level fix). Because exploitation requires user interaction, alerting on unusual state-changing administrative requests originating shortly after a user clicks external links can provide detective coverage, but logging is a compensating measure and not a substitute for the vendor patch.

Affected VersionsENISA

Security Verify Access 10.0 ≤10.0.9.2
Verify Identity Access Container 11.0 ≤11.0.3
Verify Identity Access 11.0 ≤11.0.3
Security Verify Access Container 10.0 ≤10.0.9.2

Affected Packages

euvd security_verify_access no fix
euvd security_verify_access_container no fix
euvd verify_identity_access no fix
euvd verify_identity_access_container no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 4 packages in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The issue is a classic cross-site request forgery (CWE-352) affecting the web/management interface of IBM Security Verify Access and its successor branding IBM Verify Identity Access, in both appliance and container form factors (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:ibm:security_verify_access, cpe:2.3:a:ibm:verify_identity_access, plus the corresponding *_container entries). In CSRF, the browser automatically attaches the victim's still-valid session cookie to a forged request, so the server cannot distinguish the attacker's crafted request from a legitimate user action unless it validates a per-request anti-CSRF token and/or relies on strict SameSite cookie scoping. The weakness here indicates that state-changing operations in the administrative interface are reachable without adequate token validation or origin verification, and the CVSS vector's PR:N/UI:R combination confirms the attacker supplies no credentials while the victim supplies the authenticated context and the interaction. Because the affected versions span two product generations (10.0 through 10.0.9.2 and 11.0 through 11.0.3), the same interface code path is likely shared across the Security Verify Access and Verify Identity Access lines and their containers; EUVD tracks it as EUVD-2026-95271.

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Severity by source

Vendor (ibm) PRIMARY MEDIUM
NVD 8.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI 8.8 HIGH

CSRF needs no attacker privileges (PR:N) but requires a logged-in victim to interact (UI:R) over the network (AV:N); high CIA retained per vendor, assuming forged privileged admin actions.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (ibm).

CVSS VectorNVD

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

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Severity Changed
Oct 09, 2026 - 14:22 NVD
MEDIUM HIGH
CVSS changed
Oct 09, 2026 - 14:22 NVD
4.3 (MEDIUM) 8.8 (HIGH)

DescriptionNVD

IBM Security Verify Access 10.0 through 10.0.9.2 and IBM Verify Identity Access 11.0 through 11.0.3 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to execute malicious and unauthorized actions transmitted from a user that the website trusts.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

IBM Security Verify Access 10.0 through 10.0.9.2 and IBM Verify Identity Access 11.0 through 11.0.3, including their container editions, contain a cross-site request forgery flaw rated CVSS 8.8 that lets an attacker ride an already-authenticated session to push through privileged configuration changes. Because the affected systems are the identity and access management tier, a successful attack against an administrator's session could let an outsider alter authentication policy, add credentials, or weaken controls that the rest of the enterprise depends on. Leadership should care most if the administrative interface is reachable from the internet, since exploitation requires no attacker credentials and only a single user-interaction step.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

Apply vendor patch.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.1%
Top 99% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
IBM enterprise IAM/access-management appliance, common in large orgs but not everywhere
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

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 HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.1%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
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
High

Priority Score

44
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +44
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.

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