CVE-2026-95696 (GCVE-0-2026-95696)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-13 20:17
Modified
2026-10-16 17:16
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 20.0.0.12 through 26.0.0.10 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to an uncaught exception.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty Version: 20.0.0.12   ≤ 26.0.0.10
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server_liberty:20.0.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server_liberty:26.0.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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