SB2025100803 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM OpenPages
Published: October 8, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 6 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-36047)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-48976)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to Apache Commons FileUpload provided a hard-coded limit of 10kB for the size of the headers associated with a multipart request. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-36097)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a stack-based overflow. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted request that cause the server to consume excessive memory resources.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
4) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-36000)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote privileged user to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. The vulnerability allows a privileged user to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
5) Privilege Chaining (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-36124)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to failure to honor JMS messaging configuration. A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability to bypass security restrictions
6) Interpretation Conflict (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-56339)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output by the application. A remote attacker can bypass security restrictions caused by a failure to honor security configuration.
Remediation
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