CVE-2026-17645 is an improper privilege-management vulnerability in IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for Red Hat OpenShift. A remote authenticated attacker with high privileges can exploit the flaw over the network, without user interaction, to obtain elevated privileges. The CVSS v3.1 vector is AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.
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An improper privilege-management vulnerability (CWE-269) in IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Red Hat OpenShift that permits a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges. The supplied CVSS v3.1 vector is AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Improper privilege management permits authenticated remote privilege escalation in IBM Financial Transaction Manager.
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