Messaging consumer functionality allows deserialization of user-controlled data without sufficient restriction of allowed object types in the out of support Control-M/Server and Control-M/Enterprise Manager versions 9.0.20.x and potentially earlier. This issue may allow an authenticated attacker to trigger unintended server-side behavior through crafted serialized content.
CVE-2026-10538
Score 8.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-01. a secondary CVSS source baseline 8.0; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 8.0
- EG Score
- 8.0(high)
- EPSS
- 15.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 1, 2026
Last Modified
July 1, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 1, 2026CVE-2026-10538 detected on Control-M/Enterprise Manager 9.0.20: Improper Deserialization Handling in Control-M Components
https://bmcapps.my.site.com/casemgmt/sc_KnowledgeArticle?sfdcid=kA3cx000000GFKrCAO&type=SolutionVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-10538(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 28× in last 7d / 28× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-06 18:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 18:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 05:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 05:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 16:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 16:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 03:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 03:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 14:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 14:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 01:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 01:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-03 12:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 12:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-03 00:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 00:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-02 11:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 11:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 22:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 22:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 09:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 09:22 UTCNVD updatefirst tracked
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