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
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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