CVE-2026-17647 is an inclusion-of-functionality-from-an-untrusted-control-sphere vulnerability in IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Red Hat OpenShift. A local low-privileged attacker can exploit the flaw with low complexity and without user interaction to execute arbitrary commands. Affected releases include FTM 4.0.6.0 through 4.0.10.0, including the specified 4.0.6.0 iFix6 builds.
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A local arbitrary-command-execution vulnerability in IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for Red Hat OpenShift caused by inclusion of functionality from an untrusted control sphere.
A high-severity local arbitrary-command-execution vulnerability in IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for Red Hat OpenShift, caused by inclusion of functionality from an untrusted control sphere (CWE-829). The listed CVSS v3.1 vector is AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Inclusion of functionality from an untrusted control sphere permits local arbitrary command execution in IBM Financial Transaction Manager.
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