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CVE-2026-18153 — Financial Transaction Manager

MEDIUM

CVE-2026-18153 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.4) Broken Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability in ibm financial transaction manager. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.

IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information and forge authentication tags due to the use…

Published
Updated
Affected
1 product
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’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-2026-18153.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.1%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs3th percentile — riskier than 3% of all scored CVEsHighest risk

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2026-18153 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 384,189 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Description

IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information and forge authentication tags due to the use of hard-coded cryptographic keys and initialization vectors.

Affected Products

1 product · 8 configurations
Application
financial transaction manageribm
≥ 4.0.7.0 && < 4.0.11.0
1 version
4.0.6.0

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vendor / appliance

  1. Detect

    Inventory every ibm financial transaction manager deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.

  2. Fix

    Apply the ibm financial transaction manager security patch or hotfix for CVE-2026-18153 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information and forge authentication tags due to the use of hard-coded cryptographic keys and initialization vectors.
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CVE-2026-18153: Financial Transaction Manager