CVE-2026-81212 (GCVE-0-2026-81212)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-20 21:58
Modified
2026-10-28 15:52
Severity ?
10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
Summary
IBM DataStage on Cloud Pak for Data 5.4.0.0 allows an unauthenticated user to perform an arbitrary write into shared Redis under any tenant's key. This collapses the platform's credential-encryption boundary and lets an anonymous caller poison any tenant's cached flow parameters.
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Impacted products
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IBM DataStage on Cloud Pak for Data Version: 5.4.0.0
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:datastage_on_cloud_pak_for_data:5.4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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