CVE-2026-15396

Summary

IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0, and 8.5 and IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty are vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper parsing of the HTTP transfer-encoding request header. By sending a specially crafted HTTP transfer-encoding request header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
IBMWebSphere Application Server9.0affected
IBMWebSphere Application Server8.5affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-444: CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

References