CVE-2026-18486: high-severity vulnerability in IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway
IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway is affected by credential disclosure and privilege escalation via jq filter execution
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.6%
IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway <= v1.0.7 MCP Context Forge could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive credentials and escalate privileges due to improper validation of jq filters.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
IBM · ContextForge MCP GatewayRelated CVEs — IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway
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