CVE-2025-36047 (GCVE-0-2025-36047)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-14 15:38 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:54
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Title
IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty denial of service
Summary
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.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
ibm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Affected: 18.0.0.2 , ≤ 25.0.0.8 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:18.0.0.2:*:*:*:liberty:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:25.0.0.8:*:*:*:liberty:*:*:*
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