CVE-2021-29854: IBM Maximo Application Suite

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.6.1.1 and 7.6.1.2 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject HTTP HOST header, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 205680.

Affected products

• IBM Maximo Application Suite: version 8.7 only
• IBM Maximo Asset Management: version 7.6.1.1 only; version 7.6.1.2 only

Published 2022-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.