CVE-2026-18875 PUBLISHED

IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) is Impacted by Multiple Vulnerabilities

Assigner: ibm
Reserved: 04.08.2026 Published: 23.09.2026 Updated: 23.09.2026

IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift is vulnerable to RAG poisoning via unauthenticated runbook upsert (CWE-74) in the FTM AI agent server (api.vectordb.runbooks.js:51). An unauthenticated attacker can insert malicious runbook content into the agent's vector database to steer AI-driven MCP tool calls, potentially triggering unauthorized payment actions or exfiltrating payment data.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 7.3

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	Low
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	Low

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	IBM
Product	Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift
Versions	affected from 4.0.6.0 to 4.0.10.0 (incl.)

Solutions

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities now by updating FTM deployments to the following

Affected Product(s)Resolved by VRMFRemediation / First FixFinancial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift4.0.11.0 FTM 4.0.11.0 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7285661

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288641

Problem Types

CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') CWE