CVE-2025-36137IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX command execution
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.35%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 71% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
IBM Sterling Connect Direct for Unix 6.2.0.7 through 6.2.0.9 iFix004, 6.4.0.0 through 6.4.0.2 iFix001, and 6.3.0.2 through 6.3.0.5 iFix002 incorrectly assigns permissions for maintenance tasks to Control Center Director (CCD) users that could allow a privileged user to escalate their privileges further due to unnecessary privilege assignment for post update scripts.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
IBM · Sterling Connect:Direct for Unix
- affected 6.2.0.7 – ≤ 6.2.0.9 iFix004
- affected 6.4.0.0 – ≤ 6.4.0.2 iFix001
- affected 6.3.0.2 – ≤ 6.3.0.5 iFix002
What to do
Solution: Remediation/Fixes IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading Product Version Remediation/Fix/Instructions IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX 6.4.0 Apply 6.4.0.2.iFix004, available on Fix Central . IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX 6.3.0 Apply 6.3.0.5.iFix008, available on Fix Central . IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for UNIX 6.2.0 Apply 6.2.0.9.iFix005, available on Fix Central .
References
References1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7249678 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatch
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-37202 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-36137)Record last updated .