Vulnerability · Published Sep 23, 2026 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2026-18875IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) is Impacted by Multiple Vulnerabilities

High 7.3

In plain English

A high-severity injection in Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 31% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.3High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 69.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
IBM	Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift	4.0.6.0 – through 4.0.10.0

Weakness: CWE-74 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7288641 vendor-advisory, patch