CVE-2025-36099 IBM WebSphere Application Server
| Affected software | IBM WebSphere Application Server |
|---|---|
| Severity | 4.9 Medium CVSS 3.1 |
| Weakness | CWE-770 |
| Published | 29 Sep 2025 |
| Updated | 9 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.
Exploitation status
- 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
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| Source | Vendor | Product | Scheme | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nvd | ibm | websphere application server | generic | 8.5.0.0 · 9.0.0.0 |
References
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7246549 | Vendor Advisory |
Timeline
Timeline
| Published | 2025-09-29 | By the CVE Program. |
|---|---|---|
| NVD record modified | 2026-10-09 | NVD's own last-modified date for this record. |