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Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities in WebSphere Liberty may affect IBM Business Automation Workflow - CVE-2025-25193, CVE-2025-23184

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional includes optional components running on WebSphere Liberty: User Management Service and Process Federation Service. IBM Business Automation Workflow on Containers builds upon WebSphere Liberty. Multiple security vulnerabilies have been reported for WebSphere Liberty.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-25193
DESCRIPTION:   Netty, an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework, has a vulnerability in versions up to and including 4.1.118.Final. An unsafe reading of environment file could potentially cause a denial of service in Netty. When loaded on an Windows application, Netty attempts to load a file that does not exist. If an attacker creates such a large file, the Netty application crash. A similar issue was previously reported as CVE-2024-47535. This issue was fixed, but the fix was incomplete in that null-bytes were not counted against the input limit. Commit d1fbda62d3a47835d3fb35db8bd42ecc205a5386 contains an updated fix.
CWE:   CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS Source:   NVD
CVSS Base score:   5.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-23184
DESCRIPTION:   A potential denial of service vulnerability is present in versions of Apache CXF before 3.5.10, 3.6.5 and 4.0.6. In some edge cases, the CachedOutputStream instances may not be closed and, if backed by temporary files, may fill up the file system (it applies to servers and clients).
CWE:   CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS Source:   NVD
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)Status
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers

V24.0.1 - V24.0.1-IF002
V24.0.0 - V24.0.0-IF005
earlier unsupported versions

affected
IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional and IBM Business Automation Workflow Enterprise Service Bus V24.0.0 - V24.0.1
earlier unsupported versions
affected

For earlier and unsupported versions of the products, IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version of the product.

 

Remediation/Fixes

 

Affected Product(s)Version(s)Remediation / Fix
IBM Business Automation Workflow containersV24.0.1 - V24.0.1-IF002Apply 24.0.1-IF004
IBM Business Automation Workflow containersV24.0.0 - V24.0.0-IF005Apply 24.0.0-IF006
IBM Business Automation Workflow containersearlier unsupported versionsUpgrade to 24.0.0-IF006 (or later) or 24.0.1-IF004 (or later) or 25.0.0 (or later)
IBM Business Automation Workflow traditionalV25.0.0
V24.0.1
V24.0.0

Follow

IBM Business Automation Workflow traditionalearlier unsupported versionsUpgrade to 24.0.0 or 24.0.1 or 25.0.0

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

06 Aug 2025: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
06 August 2025

UID

ibm17241572