CVE-2025-36258IBM InfoSphere Information Server is vulnerable due to plaintext storage of a password
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.16%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 95% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.0.0 through 11.7.1.6 product stores user credentials and other sensitive information in plain text which can be read by a local user.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day 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 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.16% · top 95% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
IBM · InfoSphere Information Server
- affected 11.7.0.0 – ≤ 11.7.1.6
What to do
Solution: ProductVersion(s)APARRemediationIBM InfoSphere Information Server11.7.0.0 to 11.7.1.6 DT461542 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/defect/aCIgJ0000009sNl/dt461542 --Apply IBM InfoSphere Information Server version 11.7.1.0 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/878310 --Apply IBM InfoSphere Information Server version 11.7.1.6 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7182872 --Apply IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.6 Service pack 2 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7260779
Workaround: Workarounds and Mitigations On the Microservices tier, change the file permissions: - cd </INSTALL_PATH/ugdockerfiles> - chmod 0600 uginfo.rsp - chmod 0600 inventory.yaml
References
References1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7266489 (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-2025-209023 (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-2025-36258)Record last updated .