Unauthenticated service interruption via HTTP/2 resource exhaustion
Published Jul 30, 2026 · Updated Jul 30, 2026
Resource exhaustion in IBM DataPower Gateway allows remote attackers to interrupt gateway service through HTTP/2 requests. The HTTP/2 request-processing path fails to enforce resource limits, but IBM has not disclosed the exhausted resource, triggering request pattern, or whether the result is a hang, crash, or reload. No authentication or user interaction is required; only deployments with HTTP/2 enabled expose the vulnerable path, and the reported consequence is limited to availability.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in IBM DataPower Gateway allows remote attackers to interrupt gateway service through HTTP/2 requests. The HTTP/2 request-processing path fails to enforce resource limits, but IBM has not disclosed the exhausted resource, triggering request pattern, or whether the result is a hang, crash, or reload. No authentication or user interaction is required; only deployments with HTTP/2 enabled expose the vulnerable path, and the reported consequence is limited to availability.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-12733
- Published
- Jul 30, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 30, 2026
- Vendor
- IBM
- Product
- IBM DataPower Gateway
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 30, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 30, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=10.5.0.0 <=10.5.0.21
- Affected versionversion=10.6.0.0 <=10.6.0.9
- Affected versionversion=10.6.1 <=10.6.6
- Affected versionversion=11.0.0.0 <=11.0.0.1
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