What is CVE-2026-18161?
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote authenticated attacker to falsify transaction audit logs due to improper validation of a client-supplied HTTP header.
The record classifies CVE-2026-18161 under weakness class CWE-778. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 13 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 4.3 — MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8.9% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 2.5/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2026-09-22, last modified 2026-09-23
Is CVE-2026-18161 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 32 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- IBM: Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift
How to fix CVE-2026-18161
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-18161 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2026-18161
No threat campaign in the Threadlinqs corpus currently references CVE-2026-18161, in its CVE list or as an indicator. The linkage is recomputed from the live corpus on every daily ingest, so this section fills in as soon as a tracked campaign cites the identifier.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS. Last verified by Threadlinqs on .