CVE-2025-14915 IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability

What is CVE-2025-14915?

CVE-2025-14915 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Websphere Application Server, published on 25 Mar 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 26.0.0.3 IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is affected by privilege escalation. A privileged user could gain additional access to the application server.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14915?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Websphere Application Server.

How do I fix CVE-2025-14915?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14915 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-14915 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14915 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Websphere Application Server

• CVE-2015-1920 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2013-0462 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-1377 Security feature bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3186 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1899 Information disclosure in n/a Critical 10.0

All Ibm Websphere Application Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-c39w-6qgm-5cp7.