CVE-2025-36038 (GCVE-0-2025-36038)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-25 20:38 – Updated: 2025-08-26 14:51
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Summary
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with a specially crafted sequence of serialized objects.
Severity ?
9 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
ibm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM WebSphere Application Server Affected: 8.5
Affected: 9.0
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_application_server:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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