CVE-2026-18529

Status: Awaiting AnalysisHigh (8.7)—

Severity8.7High · CVSS 3.1

Exploitation probability0.67 %higher than 51% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitNot knownno public code found

IBM Maximo Application Suite - Location Service for Esri Component 9.2, 9.1, and 9.0 is vulnerable to command injection due to improper sanitisation of a user-controlled value passed to a shell command in a Kubernetes operator task.

CVSS

Base score: 8.7
Version: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.67 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 51
Score date: 10/20/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

ATT&CK techniques

How this vulnerability is exploited and what the attacker gains, in MITRE ATT&CK terms.

ExploitationT1210 Exploitation of Remote Serviceslateral movement85 %
Primary impactT1059 Command and Scripting Interpreterexecution90 %

CWE-78 (command injection) en servicio remoto de Kubernetes con PR:H (requiere privilegios) apunta a T1210. El impacto es T1059 por ejecución de comandos inyectados en la tarea del operador.

Inferred by our analysis agent from the official description, CVSS vector and CWE, and checked by a supervisor. May contain errors.

ATT&CK mitigations that cover these techniques

Privileged Account Management Disable or Remove Feature or Program Vulnerability Scanning Threat Intelligence Program Restrict Web-Based Content Network Segmentation

Affected technologies (1)

⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.

IBM — Maximo Application Suite^AI

CWEs

CWE-78

References

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https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7290070

Raw JSON (NVD)

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