CVE-2025-36020 (GCVE-0-2025-36020)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-06 14:28 – Updated: 2025-10-22 18:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
IBM Guardium Data Protection information disclosure
Summary
IBM Guardium Data Protection could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information due to cleartext transmission of sensitive credential information.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-06 14:58 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7241547 | vendor-advisorypatch |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM | Guardium Data Protection |
Affected:
11.5
Affected: 12.0 Affected: 12.1 cpe:2.3:a:ibm:security_guardium:11.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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