04 Affected products
PAIRS: —
01 RecordSTATE: PUBLISHED
02 Description
CNA: ibmIBM Application Runtime Expert (ARE) for IBM i is vulnerable to a user gaining elevated privileges and sensitive information [, ].
03 Exploitation and scoring
SRC: CISA, FIRST, NVD, RED HAT- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- Not scored by EPSS
- EPSS percentile
- Not scored by EPSS
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Received. NVD last modified this record on 2026-08-28.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
SCHEMA: 5.2
- Published
- 2026-08-28 20:43Z9 HR AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-08-28 20:43Z9 HR AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-07-24
- Assigning CNA
- ibm
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287Improper AuthenticationClass
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 8c603da77a761a49a97bd72c5310880e89ba2e836bd265bd481ff119913f9091
05 Affected products
PAIRS: 1VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
SRC: CNA
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Release5733-ARE
PTF Number(s)PTF Download Link(s)V1R1M0
SJ11185
After applying this PTF the legacy ARE GUI is nonfunctional.
https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ11185