# CVE-2025-33014: IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling File Gateway link injection

> Remote attackers can exploit untrusted web links to expose sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions in victims' browsers.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 18 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pr3f-84fh-7r83

## What is CVE-2025-33014?

CVE-2025-33014 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Sterling B2b Integrator, published on 18 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling File Gateway 6.0.0.0 through 6.1.2.7 and 6.2.0.0 through 6.2.0.4 uses a web link with untrusted references to an external site. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions on the victims’ web browser.

Weakness: CWE-1022 (Use of Web Link to Untrusted Target with window.opener Access)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-33014?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Ibm Sterling B2b Integrator, Ibm Sterling File Gateway.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-33014?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-33014 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-33014 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-33014 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Sterling B2b Integrator

- [CVE-2015-7450](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-7450/): IBM WebSphere Application Server and Server Hypervisor Edition Code Injection. (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2024-31903](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-31903/): IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Standard Edition code execution (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2019-4728](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-4728/): Deserialization in Sterling B2B Integrator (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2020-4762](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4762/): Privilege escalation in Sterling B2B Integrator (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2017-1174](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1174/): SQL injection in Sterling B2B Integrator (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-33014 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-33014 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Sterling B2b Integrator, published on 18 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-33014 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Ibm Sterling B2b Integrator. 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-2025-33014/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-33014/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-33014
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-33014
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-33014

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-33014/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.