CVE-2025-36096 (GCVE-0-2025-36096)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-13 22:01
Modified
2025-11-14 15:33
Severity ?
9.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Summary
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM VIOS 3.1, and 4.1 stores NIM private keys used in NIM environments in an insecure way which is susceptible to unauthorized access by an attacker using man in the middle techniques.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM AIX Version: 7.2
Version: 7.3
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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   IBM VIOS Version: 3.1
Version: 4.1
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:vios:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:vios:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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