CVE Intelligence
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CVE-2025-36091 — IBM Business Automation Insights unverified ownership

IBM Cloud Pak For Business Automation 25.0.0, 24.0.1, and 24.0.0 could allow an authenticated user to cause dashboards to become inaccessible to legitimate users due to invalid ownership assignment.

Published Nov 3, 2025 · Updated Oct 13, 2026 · Sources: NIST National Vulnerability Database, CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP · CNA: ibm

Who exploits it and how urgent it is

A 0–100 score combining confirmed exploitation, ransomware and APT use, public exploits, EPSS and severity.

No exploitation signal in the sources consulted so far.
How the score was calculated
  • EPSS 0.4% (30-day exploitation probability)+4
  • Technical severity (medium)+3

The score orders the patch queue; it does not replace your asset context (internet exposure, criticality, compensating controls).

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the sources call it.

Exploitation
Not confirmed
Not in CISA KEV — an absence of record, not proof it is unexploited.
EPSS FIRST
0.36%
ahead of 27% of scored CVEs · Oct 14, 2026
Affects
Ibm
Cloud Pak For Business Automation
CVSS base
4.3
Medium · 2 source(s)

CISA SSVC assessment CISA

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses (SSVC 2.0.3). A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

Exploitation
None
none · proof-of-concept · active
Automatable
No
can an attacker script the kill-chain steps
Technical impact
Partial
partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Remediation

Fixes and mitigations documented by the sources — linked to the original advisory.

No fix documented by the sources we poll. That does not mean none exists: check the vendor advisory.

First 24 hours

Ordered from the record’s own fields — exposure first, because you cannot patch what you have not found. A rule-generated starting point.

  1. Identify exposed assets running the affected vendor/product/version combinations (Ibm Cloud Pak For Business Automation).
  2. No fix documented in the sources: reduce exposure and monitor the vendor advisory.
  3. Search available logs for exploit probes, errors and authentication anomalies.

Affected scope

Vendor, product and versions as the sources word them.

VendorProductVersionsStatusSource
Ibm Cloud Pak For Business Automation version 24.0.0version 24.0.0-interim_fix_001version 24.0.0-interim_fix_002version 24.0.0-interim_fix_003version 24.0.0-interim_fix_004version 24.0.1version 24.0.1-interim_fix_001version 24.0.1-interim_fix_002
and 3 more version 24.0.1-interim_fix_004version 25.0.0version 25.0.0-interim_fix_001
Vulnerable NIST National Vulnerability Database
Ibm Cloud Pak For Business Automation version 25.0.0version 24.0.1version 24.0.0 Vulnerable CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP

Attack characteristics

The CVSS vector, decoded. It describes the attack, not your exposure to it.

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and may disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactScored by
4.3 CVSS 3.1 Medium 2.8 1.4 psirt@us.ibm.com via NIST National Vulnerability Database
4.3 CVSS 3.1 Medium — — ibm via CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L (score shown at the top: psirt@us.ibm.com)

Weakness MITRE

Weakness class according to MITRE’s CWE catalog.

CWE-283

Other CVEs with this weakness →

EPSS over time FIRST

Oct 13, 2026 → Oct 14, 2026 · 2 reading(s) · max 0.36%

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not tested rules.

  • Prioritize edge telemetry for the network-reachable component (proxy, WAF, IDS/IPS).
web/proxy/WAF logsnetwork IDS/IPS

Timeline

What happened to this CVE, newest first.

  • 2026
  • Affected products added · ibm/cloud pak for business automation
    Oct 13, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
  • SSVC assessment updated
    Oct 13, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
  • Record published
    Oct 13, 2026
  • CVSS changed · 4.3
    Oct 13, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
  • Source status changed · → Analyzed
    Oct 13, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
  • Record created in this database
    Oct 13, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
  • 2025
  • CVE published
    Nov 3, 2025 · ibm

Source activity

Repeated readings are counted rather than listed.

  • 1× Official description updated · Oct 13, 2026 – Oct 13, 2026

References

1 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

Ibm
every CVE for this vendor
CWE-283
other pages naming this weakness

Related CVEs (same products)

  • CVE-2025-36094 Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation iFixes for January 2026. Feb 3, 2026
  • CVE-2025-36436 Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation iFixes for January 2026. Feb 2, 2026
  • CVE-2025-36172 Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation iFixes for 24.0.0-IF007, 24.0.1-IF005 and 25.0.0-IF002 Nov 3, 2025
  • CVE-2025-36092 IBM Business Automation Insights improper input validation Nov 3, 2025
  • CVE-2025-36093 security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Business Automation Insights iFixes for October 2025. Nov 3, 2025

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No fixed version, patch or mitigation documented.
  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.

Answered from this record

Text assembled only from the fields above — no additional claims.

What should defenders know first?

CVE-2025-36091 is "IBM Business Automation Insights unverified ownership", rated Medium. It affects Cloud Pak For Business Automation (Ibm); versions are in the scope table. It is not in CISA KEV, which does not rule out exploitation. CVSS 4.3 describes technical severity. EPSS 0.36% estimates the probability of exploitation in 30 days; neither replaces your asset context. First verify whether exposed or business-critical assets run the affected versions, apply vendor fixes or mitigations, and preserve logs for review.

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