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CVE-2025-36099 IBM WebSphere Application Server

Affected softwareIBM WebSphere Application Server
Severity4.9 Medium CVSS 3.1
WeaknessCWE-770
Published29 Sep 2025
Updated9 Oct 2026

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by sending a specially-crafted request. A privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to consume memory resources.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published a year ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 0.32% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

VRT has not found a public code change for this CVE yet.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued
  • Review automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by Nothing to build a rule from yet: no published exploit, no CISA record of exploitation and no source-level change to read
Finding This CVE affects a known product, but nothing published names a fix and nothing published shows an exploit. That is a statement about the evidence, not about the defect — it does not mean the vulnerability is unimportant or unreachable, only that neither of the two things VRT can act on exists.

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

1 product, 2 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd ibm websphere application server generic 8.5.0.0 · 9.0.0.0

References

URLTags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7246549 Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published2025-09-29By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-10-09NVD's own last-modified date for this record.