CVE-2025-36099 (GCVE-0-2025-36099)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-29 18:20
Modified
2025-09-29 18:38
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by sending a specially-crafted request. A privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to consume memory resources.
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Impacted products
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| IBM | WebSphere Application Server |
Version: 8.5 Version: 9.0 cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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