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CVE-2026-16179 — Datapower Gateway 106cd

HIGH

CVE-2026-16179 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) CWE-124 vulnerability in ibm datapower gateway 106cd. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.

IBM DataPower Gateway 10.5.0.0 through 10.5.0.22, 10.6.1 through 10.6.6, 10.6.0.0 through 10.6.0.10, and 11.0.0.0 through 11.0.0.2 could allow an attacker to cause a heap buffer underwrite…

Published
Updated
Affected
4 products
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 8, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-16179.

Description

IBM DataPower Gateway 10.5.0.0 through 10.5.0.22, 10.6.1 through 10.6.6, 10.6.0.0 through 10.6.0.10, and 11.0.0.0 through 11.0.0.2 could allow an attacker to cause a heap buffer underwrite and potentially crash the service.

Affected Products

4 products · 8 configurations
Application
datapower gateway 106cdibm
2 versions
10.6.110.6.6
Application
datapower gateway 1050ibm
2 versions
10.5.0.010.5.0.22
Application
datapower gateway 1060ibm
2 versions
10.6.0.010.6.0.10
Application
datapower gateway 1100ibm
2 versions
11.0.0.011.0.0.2

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vendor / appliance

  1. Detect

    Inventory every ibm datapower gateway 106cd deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.

  2. Remediation status

    No patch has shipped for CVE-2026-16179 yet — track the ibm datapower gateway 106cd advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM DataPower Gateway 10.5.0.0 through 10.5.0.22, 10.6.1 through 10.6.6, 10.6.0.0 through 10.6.0.10, and 11.0.0.0 through 11.0.0.2 could allow an attacker to cause a heap buffer underwrite and potentially crash the service.
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