VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-15634

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.37%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-09-14
Last modified2026-10-22
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0, and IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 26.0.0.8 are vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper parsing of the HTTP transfer-encoding request header. By sending a specially crafted HTTP transfer-encoding request header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.

Weakness classification

  • psirt@us.ibm.com: CWE-444

Primary references