CVE-2025-36397 (GCVE-0-2025-36397)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-20 15:23 – Updated: 2026-01-20 15:47
VLAI
Title
Security vulnerabilities have been found in IBM Application Gateway
Summary
IBM Application Gateway 23.10 through 25.09 is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed, would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-80 - Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
Assigner
ibm
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7256857 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Application Gateway Affected: 23.10 , ≤ 25.09 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:application_gateway:23.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:application_gateway:23.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:application_gateway:25.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:application_gateway:25.09.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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