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fkie_cve-2025-36096

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-11-13 22:15

Modified

2025-11-14 16:42

Severity ?

9.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

	URL	Tags
	psirt@us.ibm.com	https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7251173

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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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

URL

Tags

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7251173

vendor-advisory, patch

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Version: 7.2
Version: 7.3
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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