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CVE-2025-36124 (GCVE-0-2025-36124)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-12 18:45 – Updated: 2025-08-12 20:37
VLAI
Title
IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty bypass security
Summary
IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 25.0.0.8 could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by a failure to honor JMS messaging configuration
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-12 19:00 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7242027 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Affected: 17.0.0.3 , ≤ 25.0.0.8 (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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