CVE-2026-18490: IBM Financial Transaction Manager

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift is vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution via Java native deserialization on the PayDir Business Rules Manager RMI SSL endpoint (BrmRMISSLServerSocketFactory.java:95, EP8). An adjacent-network attacker can deliver a crafted serialized payload to achieve arbitrary code execution, exposing all PayDir credentials and enabling manipulation of payment business rules.

Affected products

• IBM Financial Transaction Manager: from 4.0.7.0, before 4.0.11.0 (fixed in 4.0.11.0); version 4.0.6.0 only

Published 2026-09-23. Last modified 2026-10-07.