# CVE-2025-1838: IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation denial of service

> An authenticated user can bypass client-side validation in the authoring interface, causing a denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 May 2025
- **Updated:** 28 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w4rj-x734-wm94

## What is CVE-2025-1838?

CVE-2025-1838 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, published on 3 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

 24.0.0 and 24.0.1 through 24.0.1 IF001 

Authoring allows an authenticated user to bypass client-side data validation in an authoring user interface which could cause a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-602 (Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1838?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Cloud Pak for Business Automation.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-1838?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1838 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-1838 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1838 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

- [CVE-2023-35899](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-35899/): IBM Cloud Pak for Automation CSV injection (high 7.0)
- [CVE-2025-36092](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-36092/): IBM Business Automation Insights improper input validation (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2025-36023](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-36023/): IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation security bypass (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2023-38367](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38367/): IBM Cloud Pak for Automation authentication bypass (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2026-12749](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-12749/): Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation iFixes for August 2026. (medium 6.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-1838 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-1838 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, published on 3 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1838 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1838/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1838/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1838
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1838
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1838

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1838/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.