CVE-2026-16169

Summary

IBM DataPower Gateway suffers from uncontrolled resource consumption that can lead to denial of service, allowing remote attackers to exhaust system resources without requiring authentication or user interaction.

Exploitability

Exploitation is relatively straightforward as it requires no authentication or user interaction, though it may need specific input patterns to trigger the resource exhaustion condition.

Blast radius

The impact could be significant across all services relying on the affected DataPower Gateway, potentially causing widespread service disruption for organizations using this gateway for API management and traffic routing.

Detection

No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.

Prioritized remediation

Upgrade to IBM DataPower Gateway 11.0.0.3 or later to address this resource consumption vulnerability.

Analysis generated locally by garnet-coder (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.