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fkie_cve-2025-36236

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-11-13 22:15

Modified

2025-11-14 16:42

Severity ?

8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

Summary

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM VIOS 3.1, and 4.1 NIM server (formerly known as NIM master) service (nimesis) could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request to write arbitrary files on the system.

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-2025-36236 (GCVE-0-2025-36236)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-11-13 22:01

Modified

2025-11-14 15:25

Severity ?

8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Summary

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM VIOS 3.1, and 4.1 NIM server (formerly known as NIM master) service (nimesis) could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request to write arbitrary files on the system.

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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