CVE-2026-13773 PUBLISHED

IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale is affected by server side request forgery when ORB is used as Transport Protocol

Assigner: ibm
Reserved: 29.06.2026 Published: 30.06.2026 Updated: 30.06.2026

IBM WebSphere Extreme Scale 8.6.1.0 through 8.6.1.6 Approximately 50 generated CORBA stub classes in WebSphere eXtreme Scale's ogclient.jar call ORB.string_to_object() on an attacker-controlled IOR string during Java deserialization, turning any unfiltered ObjectInputStream sink in WAS into outbound IIOP SSRF to an attacker-chosen host; when chained with the IBM ORB's getUserException class-instantiation flaw (WAS-26), this SSRF escalates to remote code execution on the calling JVM.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 6

Product Status

Vendor IBM
Product WebSphere Extreme Scale
Versions
  • affected from 8.6.1.0 to 8.6.1.6 (incl.)

Solutions

Vulnerability is not applicable if Transport protocol is not Object Request Broker (ORB)  rather IBM eXtremeIO (XIO) .Please do not use ORB as transport protocol and use XIO as transport protocol. Please follow the below document for setting XIO as transport protocol https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSTVLU_8.6.1/com.ibm.websphere.extremescale.doc/txsconfigxstransport.html ORB is deprecated and we have removed ORB support from 8.6.2. version . We recommend customers to migrate to 8.6.2..

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) CWE