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CVE-2025-36374 (GCVE-0-2025-36374)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-30 17:55 – Updated: 2026-07-30 18:49

Title

IBM DataPower Gateway affected by XML external entity injection

Summary

IBM DataPower Gateway is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Assigner

ibm

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7278748	vendor-advisorypatch

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version
IBM	DataPower Gateway 10.6CD	Affected: 10.6.1 , ≤ 10.6.6 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:ibm:datapower_gateway_106cd:10.6.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:datapower_gateway_106cd:10.6.6:::::::*
IBM	DataPower Gateway 10.5.0	Affected: 10.5.0.0 , ≤ 10.5.0.21 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:ibm:datapower_gateway_1050:10.5.0.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:datapower_gateway_1050:10.5.0.21:::::::*
IBM	DataPower Gateway 10.6.0	Affected: 10.6.0.0 , ≤ 10.6.0.9 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:ibm:datapower_gateway_1060:10.6.0.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:datapower_gateway_1060:10.6.0.9:::::::*

Credits

This vulnerability was reported to IBM by Maciej Włodarczyk & Michał Bartoszuk @ STM Cyber.

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CVE-2025-36374 (GCVE-0-2025-36374)

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