Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-8852

Medium

Published: 26 May 2026

Published
26 May 2026
Modified
26 May 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0020 9.5th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-8852 is a medium-severity Reachable Assertion (CWE-617) vulnerability in Ibm Http Server. Its CVSS base score is 6.2 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 9.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

IBM HTTP Server 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to denial of service via the optional module mod_fastcgi module.

CWE(s)
CWE-617

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
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Why these techniques?

Direct DoS via reachable assertion in public web server module enables application exploitation for endpoint denial of service.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

ibm
http server
8.5.0.0 — 8.5.5.30 · 9.0.0.0 — 9.0.5.29

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References