CVE-2025-36038 (GCVE-0-2025-36038)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-25 20:38
Modified
2025-08-26 14:51
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Summary
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with a specially crafted sequence of serialized objects.
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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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