CVE-2025-33142 (GCVE-0-2025-33142)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-14 15:41
Modified
2025-08-14 19:55
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
Summary
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 could provide weaker than expected security for TLS connections.
References
psirt@us.ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7242172Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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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