Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in IBM DB2 LUW - CVE-2025-36071

 

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in IBM DB2 LUW - CVE-2025-36071

Published: August 18, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU114125
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-36071
CWE-ID: CWE-772
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper release of memory resources. A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

IBM DB2 LUW
Watson Query on Cloud Pak for Data
Data Virtualization (DV) on Cloud Pak for Data (CPD)
Db2 Big SQL
IBM OpenPages with Watson
IBM Cloud Pak System
IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM)
IBM Security Verify Governance

How to mitigate CVE-2025-36071

Install updates from vendor's website.

IBM Cloud Pak System - update to 2.3.6.1
Data Virtualization (DV) on Cloud Pak for Data (CPD) - update to 3.2.1
Db2 Big SQL - update to 8.1
IBM OpenPages with Watson - update to 9.1.2

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