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Security Bulletin: IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next is vulnerable to Broken Access Control for reviews (CVE-2025-2139) and comments (CVE-2025-2138), email spoofing (CVE-2025-2140) and DoS attacks (CVE-2025-33096)

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Summary

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next is vulnerable to Broken Access Control for reviews (CVE-2025-2139) and comments (CVE-2025-2138), Unrestricted Email Recipients and Sender Spoofing (CVE-2025-2140) and Artifact Upload Quote Parsing Allows DoS Attacks (CVE-2025-33096).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-2140
DESCRIPTION:   IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next could allow an authenticated user on the network to spoof email identity of the sender due to improper verification of source data.
CWE:   CWE-346: Origin Validation Error
CVSS Source:   IBM
CVSS Base score:   5.7
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-2139
DESCRIPTION:   IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next could allow an authenticated user on the network to delete reviews from other users due to client-side enforcement of server-side security.
CWE:   CWE-602: Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security
CVSS Source:   IBM
CVSS Base score:   3.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-33096
DESCRIPTION:   IBM Engineering Requirements Management Doors Next could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service by uploading specially crafted files using uncontrolled recursion.
CWE:   CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
CVSS Source:   IBM
CVSS Base score:   6.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-2138
DESCRIPTION:   IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next could allow an authenticated user on the network to delete comments from other users due to client-side enforcement of server-side security.
CWE:   CWE-602: Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security
CVSS Source:   IBM
CVSS Base score:   3.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next7.0.2
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next7.0.3
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next7.1

Remediation/Fixes

For IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next 7.0.2, install ifix 36.

For IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next 7.0.3, install ifix 19 or newer.

For IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next 7.1.0, install ifix 05 or newer.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

The vulnerabilities were reported to IBM by Peter Backlund, Hunter Dyer, Todd Fine, Gary Huang, Dorota Kopczyk, Charles Nove, Addison Shuppy, George Thompson, Sandia National Laboratories.

Change History

10 Oct 2025: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
29 October 2025

UID

ibm17247716