CVE-2025-36157
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management incorrect authorization
02 Description
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management incorrect authorization
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
- 0.63% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 50.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.1 (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:N/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- 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
- 2025-08-24 01:14Z1 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-02-26 17:48Z8 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2025-04-15
- 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-863Incorrect AuthorizationClass
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 161c6e88e5f8516bf0e655f34537e64f078a88a87f9778e08b77fddd35d96ee3
05 Affected products
06 References
07 Remediation
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to iFixes detailed below: IBM recommends customers on ELM 7.0, 7.0.1 or any version below 7.0.2 to upgrade your products to Maintenance release 7.0.2. Optionally, upgrade to the latest 7.1.0 version and apply below fix. Affected Product(s)Version(s)Remediation/Fix/InstructionsIBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation7.0.2Download and install 7.0.2 iFix035-sec https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes or laterIBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation7.0.3Download and install 7.0.3 iFix018-sec https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes or laterIBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation7.1.0Download and install 7.1.0 iFix004-sec https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes or later Apart from installing these iFixes, kindly perform the following additional step as mentioned below: 1. Set the Advanced property named "setup.isRegistrationHandlerServiceOpen" to "False" under Jazz Team Server (JTS) > Server Administration > Advanced property page and save your changes.