SB2026011912 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Verify Identity Access and IBM Security Verify Access
Published: January 19, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 6 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Improper Authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-51767)
The vulnerability allows a local user to bypass authentication process.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in when processing authentication requests. A local user can bypass authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the application by conducting a row hammer attack against the mm_answer_authpassword integer value to flip a single bit.
2) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-51385)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing user names, if a user name or host name has shell metacharacters, and this name is referenced by an expansion token in certain situations. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary OS commands via an untrusted Git repository.
3) Inadequate Encryption Strength (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-51384)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the ssh-agent, which causes certain destination constraints to be incompletely applied. When destination constraints are specified during addition of PKCS#11-hosted private keys, these constraints are only applied to the first key, even if a PKCS#11 token returns multiple keys.
4) Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-26465)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The
vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data
in ssh(1). A remote attacker can perform server impersonation when
VerifyHostKeyDNS enabled.
5) Untrusted search path (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-38408)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of an insecure search path within the PKCS#11 feature in ssh-agent. A remote attacker can trick the victim into connecting to a malicious SSH server and execute arbitrary code on the system, if an agent is forwarded to an attacker-controlled system.
Note, this vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU2015 (CVE-2016-10009).
6) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10009)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable ssh client.The vulnerability exists due to incorrect handling of data passed to PKCS#11 module within ssh-agent. A remote attacker with control over sshd service can execute arbitrary code on vulnerable client.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable client system but requires that client is connected to malicious SSH server.
Remediation
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