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CVE-2026-113696medium5.3

Improper Authorization in BMC ITSM SmartIT Change Approvals

Impact

BMC IT Service Management Suite versions 25.3.01, 25.4.01, and 26.1.01 have an improper authorization weakness, allowing authenticated users to make unauthorized changes. The weakness is in the SmartIT change approval feature. Authenticated access is required to exploit this weakness.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

What to do

Apply BMC IT Service Management Suite 25.3.01 hotfix 10, 25.4.01 hotfix 22, or 26.1.01 hotfix 12, as applicable.

NCSC guidance

Affected packages

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BMC · NCSC

BMC IT Service Management Suite

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affected

25.3.01

custom versions

25.4.01

custom versions

26.1.01

custom versions

unaffected

25.3.01 hotfix 10

custom versions

25.4.01 hotfix 22

custom versions

26.1.01 hotfix 12

custom versions

unknown

Other versions: unknown

Original source description

Improper authorization in the SmartIT change approval feature of BMC IT Service Management Suite versions 25.3.01, 25.4.01, and 26.1.01 allows authenticated users to make unauthorized changes to approval state and bypass intended approval restrictions.

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CVE-2026-113696

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-285 ↗

CWE-285 Improper Authorization

NCSC

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Contributing organizations · 2
NCSC

Assigning organization

2026-10-29
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-10-29

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References

4 sources
github.com/NCSC-Assess/Advisories/blob/main/advisories/2026/CVE-2026-113696/advisory.md
Security advisoryNCSC
docs.helixops.ai/bin/Service-Management/On-Premises-Deployment/BMC-Helix-Service-Management-Deployment/brid25301/Release-notes-and-notices/Known-and-corrected-issues/
Release notesNCSC
docs.helixops.ai/bin/Service-Management/On-Premises-Deployment/BMC-Helix-Service-Management-Deployment/brid25401/Release-notes-and-notices/Known-and-corrected-issues/
Release notesNCSC
docs.helixops.ai/bin/Service-Management/On-Premises-Deployment/BMC-Helix-Service-Management-Deployment/brid26101/Release-notes-and-notices/Known-and-corrected-issues/
Release notesNCSC