- 4.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.30%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 77% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
IBM Secure Proxy 6.1.0.0 through 6.2.1.2 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service due to improper validation of listener IP address and port.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 77% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Affected products
- affected 6.1.0.0 – ≤ 6.1.0.4
- affected 6.2.0.0 – ≤ 6.2.1.2
What to do
Solution: ProductAffected Version(s)Fixed-in Version(s)RemediationIBM Sterling Secure Proxy6.1.0.0 - 6.1.0.46.1.0.5 Fix Central https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes IBM Sterling Secure Proxy6.2.0.0 - 6.2.1.26.2.1.3 Fix Central https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes IBM strongly advises upgrading as soon as possible.
References
References1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7289712 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatch
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-119702 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-18525)Record last updated .