IBM WebSphere Extreme Scale 8.6.1.0 through 8.6.1.6 could allow an adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service due to improper validation in the XDF decoder. The application processes deeply nested Protocol Buffers messages and attacker-controlled length prefixes without sufficient bounds checking, which may allow an attacker on the same network to trigger a StackOverflowError or OutOfMemoryError, resulting in a crash of the WebSphere Application Server JVM.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7278346 Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.5 · ibmNVD modified 2026-10-25 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_extreme_scale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7278346 Vendor Advisory