CVE-2025-36172 Cross-site scripting in Cloud Pak for Business Automation

What is CVE-2025-36172?

CVE-2025-36172 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, published on 3 Nov 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 25.0.0 through 25.0.0 Interim Fix 001, 24.0.1 through 24.0.1 Interim Fix 004, 24.0.0 through 24.0.0 Interim Fix 006, and earlier unsupported releases IBM Business Automation Workflow is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows an authenticated user to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-36172?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Cloud Pak for Business Automation.

How do I fix CVE-2025-36172?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-36172 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2025-36172 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-36172 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

• CVE-2023-35899 IBM Cloud Pak for Automation CSV injection High 7.0
• CVE-2025-36092 IBM Business Automation Insights improper input validation Medium 6.5
• CVE-2025-36023 IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation security bypass Medium 6.5
• CVE-2025-1838 IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation denial of service Medium 6.5
• CVE-2023-38367 IBM Cloud Pak for Automation authentication bypass Medium 6.5

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-6px2-j97p-2pf7.