CVE-2025-36223
IBM OpenPages Host Header Injection
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
IBM OpenPages 9.0 and 9.1 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 7 months later
· 7 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 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.18% · top 92% of all CVEs (7 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: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
Affected products
What to do
Solution: Remediation/Fixes A mitigation procedure has been created for each affected version of the named product. Download and install the fix as soon as possible. Fixes and installation instructions are provided at the URLs listed below: Product Remediation For IBM OpenPages 9.1.2 Download URL for 9.1.2 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/downloading-ibm-openpages-version-912-passport-advantage For IBM OpenPages 9.0 - Apply 9.0 FixPack 5 ( 9.0.0.5 ) - Then Apply 9.0.0.5 Interim Fix 7 ( 9.0.0.5.7 ) Download URL for 9.0.0.5 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-openpages-90-fix-pack-5 Download URL for 9.0.0.5.7 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-openpages-9005-interim-fix-7 Please refer mitigation steps here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/openpages/9.1.x?topic=settings-configure-allowed-hostnames https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/openpages/9.0.0?topic=settings-configure-allowed-hostnames For IBM OpenPages v8.0/8.1/8.2/8.3 customers, IBM recommends to upgrade to a fixed and supported version 9.0 or 9.1 of the product.
References (1)
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7250239 (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)
- 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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