CVE-2026-9176

HIGHNVD 7.17.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This high-severity CVE scores 7.1 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.2% (5th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 6.7 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2026-09-10) is not newer than that change (2026-09-15), so it does not.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
7.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).

IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0, and 8.5 is vulnerable to a security bypass due to improper authentication controls. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges and gain unauthorized access to protected resources.

CVSS v3
7.1
EG Score
7.1HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
32
EG Risk 32/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity71% × 45%
The EG Score, 7.1 of 10.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that within your standard update timelines; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
5th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that within your standard update timelines; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 10, 2026

Last Modified

September 15, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Sep 10, 2026
Fix referenced — no release confirmed yet.
Web page

Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server prior to 9.0.5.29 and 8.5.5.31 are affected by multiple vulnerabilities

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7286610

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-9176(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 25× in last 7d / 110× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 128 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 29 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  2. 2026-10-13 04:40 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-13 04:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  4. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  5. 2026-10-12 14:45 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-11 21:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  7. 2026-10-11 19:13 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-11 16:30 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-11 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  10. 2026-10-11 13:44 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-11 07:04 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-11 07:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  13. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  14. 2026-10-10 19:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  15. 2026-10-10 08:07 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-10 08:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  17. 2026-10-09 20:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  18. 2026-10-09 19:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  19. 2026-10-08 23:44 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-08 23:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  21. 2026-10-08 17:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  22. 2026-10-08 08:30 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-08 08:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  24. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  25. 2026-10-07 21:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
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  1. 2026-10-07 09:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  2. 2026-10-06 21:42 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-06 21:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  4. 2026-10-06 15:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  5. 2026-10-06 10:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  6. 2026-10-05 22:06 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-05 22:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  8. 2026-10-05 17:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  9. 2026-10-05 10:41 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-05 10:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  11. 2026-10-04 23:23 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  12. 2026-10-04 23:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  13. 2026-10-04 11:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  14. 2026-10-04 00:15 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-04 00:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  16. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  17. 2026-10-03 12:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  18. 2026-10-03 00:10 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-03 00:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  20. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  21. 2026-10-02 12:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  22. 2026-10-02 00:22 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-02 00:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  24. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  25. 2026-10-01 12:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  26. 2026-10-01 01:22 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-01 01:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  28. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  29. 2026-09-30 13:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  30. 2026-09-30 01:54 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-09-30 01:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  32. 2026-09-29 13:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  33. 2026-09-29 01:34 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-09-29 01:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  35. 2026-09-28 14:10 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-09-28 14:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  37. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  38. 2026-09-28 02:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  39. 2026-09-27 15:21 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-09-27 15:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  41. 2026-09-27 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  42. 2026-09-27 03:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  43. 2026-09-26 16:23 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-09-26 16:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  45. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  46. 2026-09-26 04:45 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-09-26 04:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  48. 2026-09-25 17:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  49. 2026-09-25 05:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  50. 2026-09-24 18:24 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-09-24 18:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  52. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 4th percentile
  53. 2026-09-24 06:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  54. 2026-09-23 19:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  55. 2026-09-23 08:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  56. 2026-09-22 20:35 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-09-22 20:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  58. 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  59. 2026-09-22 09:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  60. 2026-09-21 21:35 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-09-21 21:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  62. 2026-09-21 21:09 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  63. 2026-09-21 10:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  64. 2026-09-20 22:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  65. 2026-09-20 11:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  66. 2026-09-19 23:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  67. 2026-09-19 12:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  68. 2026-09-19 01:07 UTCEG score recompute
  69. 2026-09-19 01:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  70. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  71. 2026-09-18 13:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  72. 2026-09-18 02:15 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-09-18 02:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cmhg-73x2-j8g7 · GitHub CVSS 6.7
  74. 2026-09-17 19:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-9176?
CVE-2026-9176 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 10, 2026. IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0, and 8.5 is vulnerable to a security bypass due to improper authentication controls. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges and gain unauthorized access to protected resources.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-9176 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-9176 was published on September 10, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 15, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-9176 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-9176 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (5th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-9176?
CVE-2026-9176 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.1 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-9176?
A fix for CVE-2026-9176 is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but EchelonGraph has no release containing it on record. Check that reference and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains the fix and update to it; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-9176 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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