CVE-2026-4938Incorrect Authorization in IBM Verify Identity Access and IBM Security Verify Access
- 6.5MediumCVSS 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 Verify Identity Access 11.0 through 11.0.2 and IBM Security Verify Access 10.0 through 10.0.9.1 and IBM Verify Identity Access Container 11.0 through 11.0.2 and IBM Security Verify Access Container 10.0 through 10.0.9.1 could allow an attacker with read-only privileges to make unauthorized modifications and deployments outside of their assigned permissions.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 11 days later
· 11 days 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 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 77% of all CVEs (14 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 6.5.
Affected products
- affected 11.0 – ≤ 11.0.2
- affected 10.0 – ≤ 10.0.9.1
IBM · Verify Identity Access Container
- affected 11.0 – ≤ 11.0.2
IBM · Security Verify Access Container
- affected 10.0 – ≤ 10.0.9.1
What to do
Solution: IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly. Appliance: Affected Products and Versions Fix availability IBM Verify Identity Access 11.0 - 11.0.2 Download IBM Verify Identity Access v11.0.3 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/download-ibm-verify-identity-access-v1103 IBM Security Verify Access 10.0 0 - 10.0.9.1 Download IBM Security Verify Access v10.0.9.2 https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder Container: Container Download https://docs.verify.ibm.com/ibm-security-verify-access/docs/containers
References
References1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7279510 (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-2026-45293 (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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