CVE-2025-36047

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty denial of service

MEDIUM 5.3

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.47 % · percentile 41 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-08-14 15:38 UTC
Updated: 2025-11-03 19:54 UTC
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Modified

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 18.0.0.2 through 25.0.0.8 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by sending a specially-crafted request. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to consume memory resources.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	ibm
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-24866
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-36047

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-0020 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0002 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2025-AVI-0808 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2025-AVI-0760 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:*:*:*:*:liberty:*:*:* ≥ 18.0.0.2 < 25.0.0.9

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · WebSphere Application Server Liberty	affected 18.0.0.2 ≤ 25.0.0.8

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD