CVE-2026-14893 (GCVE-0-2026-14893)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-28 20:36 – Updated: 2026-07-29 14:10
VLAI
Title
IBM Instana Observability is affected by multiple Prototype Pollution within Instana Agent container image
Summary
IBM Observability with Instana (Agent) Build 1.0.303 through 1.0.320 IBM Instana Node.js tracer component @instana/core version 6.2.1 is vulnerable to prototype pollution through its configuration normalization API.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-1321 - Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')
Assigner
ibm
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7281349 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Observability with Instana (Agent) Affected: Build 1.0.303 , ≤ 1.0.320 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:observability_with_instana_agent:build:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:observability_with_instana_agent:1.0.320:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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