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Security Bulletin: IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component uses urllib3-2.5.0-py3-none-any.whl which is vulnerable to CVE-2025-66418, CVE-2025-66471.

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component uses urllib3-2.5.0-py3-none-any.whl which is vulnerable to CVE-2025-66418, CVE-2025-66471. This bulletin contains information regarding the vulnerability and its fixture.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-66418
DESCRIPTION:   urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Starting in version 1.24 and prior to 2.6.0, the number of links in the decompression chain was unbounded allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps leading to high CPU usage and massive memory allocation for the decompressed data. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.0.
CWE:   CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-66471
DESCRIPTION:   urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Starting in version 1.0 and prior to 2.6.0, the Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data. urllib3's streaming API is designed for the efficient handling of large HTTP responses by reading the content in chunks, rather than loading the entire response body into memory at once. When streaming a compressed response, urllib3 can perform decoding or decompression based on the HTTP Content-Encoding header (e.g., gzip, deflate, br, or zstd). The library must read compressed data from the network and decompress it until the requested chunk size is met. Any resulting decompressed data that exceeds the requested amount is held in an internal buffer for the next read operation. The decompression logic could cause urllib3 to fully decode a small amount of highly compressed data in a single operation. This can result in excessive resource consumption (high CPU usage and massive memory allocation for the decompressed data.
CWE:   CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
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)
IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component9.1
IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component9.0
IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component8.11
IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component8.10

Remediation/Fixes

Remediated Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component9.1.7
(available from the Catalog under Update Available)
IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component9.0.17
(available from the Catalog under Update Available)
IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component8.11.25
(available from the Catalog under Update Available)
IBM Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component8.10.27
(available from the Catalog under Update Available)

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

30 Jan 2026: 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:
30 January 2026

Initial Publish date:
30 January 2026

UID

ibm17258430