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🛡️ CVE-2026-12730 — business-automation-workflow

🟢 CVSS 3.8 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-297 NVD
3.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

IBM Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional 26.0.0, 25.0.0 through 25.0.0 Interim Fix 005, 24.0.1 through 24.0.1 Interim Fix 007, and 24.0.0 through 24.0.0 Interim Fix 009 IBM Business Automation Workflow fails to properly verify that the hostname matches the server certificate potentially allowing connections to an attacker-controlled server.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-12730 is classified as CWE-297: Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch. The product communicates with a host that provides a certificate, but the product does not properly ensure that the certificate is actually associated with that host.

Affected software

CVE-2026-12730 is recorded against 1 package.

  • business-automation-workflow

Timeline and source

Published on 5 August 2026 and last revised on 10 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.ibm.com

Other advisories for this package

business-automation-workflow has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-297: Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch) in other software:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-297
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-05
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
business-automation-workflow

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