CVE-2025-13915
Authentication bypass in IBM API Connect
02 Description
Authentication bypass in IBM API Connect
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 9.00% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-07.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2025-12-26 13:16Z10 MO AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-02-26 16:07Z8 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2025-12-02
- Assigning CNA
- ibm
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 9.8)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-305Authentication Bypass by Primary WeaknessBase
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 29785c8fcfb5a2218093babd1cf38d1d4a09eb3707ac685543dec2ca5d1b6dc4
05 Affected products
06 References
07 Remediation
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading. Product(s)Affected Version RangeRemediated VersionInstructions / DownloadIBM API Connect V10.0.810.0.8.0 – 10.0.8.5iFix Instructions: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7255318 10.0.8.1: https://ibm.biz/BdbtC6 10.0.8.2-ifix1: https://ibm.biz/BdbtCN 10.0.8.2-ifix2: https://ibm.biz/BdbtC7 10.0.8.3: https://ibm.biz/BdbtCW 10.0.8.4: https://ibm.biz/BdbtQc 10.0.8.5: https://ibm.biz/BdbtQB IBM API Connect V10.010.0.11iFix https://ibm.biz/BdbtCw