CVE-2026-59871
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in IBM products. Some of them allow an attacker to cause remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation and remote denial of service.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM products including remote code execution, privilege escalation, and denial of service flaws.
- Who is affected
- Multiple IBM product lines are affected; specific products and versions not detailed in advisory.
- Urgency
- High; RCE vulnerabilities warrant immediate remediation across affected IBM products.
- Action
- Identify affected IBM products in your environment and apply relevant patches from IBM security updates.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.64% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 48% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (4)
- unknownMultiple vulnerabilities in IBM products (July 31, 2026)cert-fr-avis · 2026-07-31
- mediumGHSA-w8wr-v893-vjvp: node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusionghsa · 2026-07-20
- mediumCVE-2026-59871: node-tar: Process crash via PAX numeric path type confusionmsrc · 2026-07-14
- mediumCVE-2026-59871: node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, node-tar coerces …nvd · 2026-07-08
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