CVE-2025-36140 (GCVE-0-2025-36140)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-08 22:11 – Updated: 2025-12-09 16:04
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Summary
IBM watsonx.data 2.2 through 2.2.1 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service through ingestion pods due to improper allocation of resources without limits.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
ibm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM watsonx.data Affected: 2.2 , ≤ 2.2.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watsonx.data:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watsonx.data:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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