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CVE-2025-36097 (GCVE-0-2025-36097)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-16 17:44 – Updated: 2025-08-18 01:34
VLAI
Title
IBM WebSphere Application Server denial of service
Summary
IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0 and WebSphere Application Server Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 25.0.0.7 are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based overflow. An attacker can send a specially crafted request that cause the server to consume excessive memory resources.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-18 14:25 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7239856 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM WebSphere Application Server Affected: 9.0
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Affected: 17.0.0.3 , ≤ 25.0.0.7 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:17.0.0.3:*:*:*:liberty:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:25.0.0.7:*:*:*:liberty:*:*:*
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