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Security Bulletin: IBM Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software is vulnerable to a remote attack to take over Java SE

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Summary

IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition, is used by IBM Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software as the runtime and development kit. (CVE-2025-50106)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-50106
DESCRIPTION:   Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: 2D). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u451, 8u451-perf, 11.0.27, 17.0.15, 21.0.7, 24.0.1; Oracle GraalVM for JDK: 17.0.15, 21.0.7 and 24.0.1; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 21.3.14. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM for JDK, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Note: This vulnerability can be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. This vulnerability also applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
CVSS Source:   secalert_us@oracle.com
CVSS Base score:   8.1
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
Rational Application Developer10.0
Rational Application Developer9.6
Rational Application Developer9.7

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.

 

ProductVersionJava VersionDownload Interim Fix
Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software9.68Java8SR8FP50
9.78Java8SR8FP50
10.017Java17SR16FP8

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

09 Oct 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:
09 October 2025

Initial Publish date:
09 October 2025

UID

ibm17247560