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CVE-2026-14525 IBM WebSphere Application Server

Affected softwareIBM WebSphere Application Server
Severity9.4 Critical CVSS 3.1
WeaknessMissing authentication (CWE-306)
Published13 Aug 2026
Updated17 Aug 2026

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 26.0.0.8 IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to an authentication bypass when the rtcomm-1.0 or rtcommGateway-1.0 feature is enabled.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 0.55% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

VRT has not found a public code change for this CVE yet.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued
  • Review automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by Nothing to build a rule from yet: no published exploit, no CISA record of exploitation and no source-level change to read
Finding This CVE affects a known product, but nothing published names a fix and nothing published shows an exploit. That is a statement about the evidence, not about the defect — it does not mean the vulnerability is unimportant or unreachable, only that neither of the two things VRT can act on exists.

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

1 product, 1 version entry
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd ibm websphere application server generic ≥ 17.0.0.3 and < 26.0.0.9

References

URLTags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283488 Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published2026-08-13By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-08-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.