SB2025071512 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Verify Identity Access Digital Credentials
Published: July 15, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-48387)
CWE-ID: CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to an issue where an extract can write outside the specified dir with a specific tarball. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and read arbitrary files on the system.
2) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-5889)
CWE-ID: CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote user can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.