What is CVE-2026-9071?
IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0, and 8.5 and IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 26.0.0.6 are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by sending a specially-crafted request. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to consume memory resources.
The record classifies CVE-2026-9071 under weakness class CWE-400. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on availability. 2 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 105 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 7.5 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 22.9% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 4.7/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2026-06-22, last modified 2026-06-23
Is CVE-2026-9071 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 35 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- IBM: WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Application Server - Liberty
How to fix CVE-2026-9071
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-9071 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-2026-9071
No threat campaign in the Threadlinqs corpus currently references CVE-2026-9071, 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, GitHub Security Advisories, FIRST EPSS. Last verified by Threadlinqs on .