CVE-2026-18124
MediumCVSS 6.5Summary
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift stores credentials with insufficient protection. A local attacker could obtain sensitive information as a result.
Risk Assessment
A local attacker with system access may read credentials and use them for privilege escalation or further unauthorized access.
Recommendation
Update IBM FTM for RedHat OpenShift to a patched version and secure stored credentials using encryption and appropriate access permissions.
Other vulnerabilities in IBM Financial Transaction Manager
See all- CVE-2026-18176High
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information due to cleartext transmission of sensitive information.
- CVE-2026-18173Low
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information due to improper enforcement of mutual TLS authentication.
- CVE-2026-18172High
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information due to improper restriction of XML external entity references.
- CVE-2026-18154High
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information due to the use of a hard-coded or predictable cryptographic key.
- CVE-2026-18153Medium
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift uses hard-coded cryptographic keys and initialization vectors. As a result, a remote authenticated attacker could obtain sensitive information and forge authentication tags.
- CVE-2026-18152High
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote attacker to forge validly-signed messages due to improper verification of cryptographic signatures.
- CVE-2026-18137High
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary ESQL commands due to improper neutralization of special elements used in an ESQL command.
- CVE-2026-18133Medium
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift is vulnerable to path traversal. A remote authenticated attacker could modify server files as a result.
- CVE-2026-18132Medium
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift does not properly enforce authorization. A remote authenticated attacker could perform unauthorized payment mutation actions as a result.
- CVE-2026-18114Medium
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift performs improper path canonicalization. A remote attacker could read arbitrary files as a result.
Original NVD description (English source)
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information due to insufficiently protected credentials.

