IBM DataPower is a widely used enterprise API/gateway appliance; unauthenticated XSS in its admin UI can expose creds and compromise integrations across organizations.
CVE-2026-14990
Unauthenticated XSS in IBM DataPower admin UI enabling credential/session theft.
Is CVE-2026-14990 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-14990 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.31% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-14990?
CVE-2026-14990 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 9.3. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-14990?
Not known from our data. No patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-14990, which is not the same as no patch existing — a fix may have shipped without a tagged reference, or after this record was written. The vendor advisory is the only authority on whether a fix exists, and mitigations may be available regardless.
What does CVE-2026-14990 affect?
CVE-2026-14990 affects IBM DataPower Gateway 10.6.0.0 through 10.6.0.10. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-14990?
Restrict admin UI access, rotate credentials, apply vendor patch/workaround ASAP
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Unauthenticated XSS lets attacker inject JS into the Web UI to steal session tokens/credentials and act as an admin within a trusted session.
Immediate action required
- affected>= 10.6.0.0 and <= 10.6.0.10
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.