CVE-2025-36003
📋 TL;DR
IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager 10.0.2 discloses sensitive technical error information to remote attackers. This information leakage vulnerability could expose system details that facilitate further attacks. Organizations running the affected IBM identity management software are at risk.
💻 Affected Systems
- IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers obtain detailed system architecture, configuration, and debugging information that enables targeted follow-up attacks like authentication bypass, privilege escalation, or remote code execution.
Likely Case
Attackers gather technical details about the system's backend, software versions, and error handling mechanisms to plan more sophisticated attacks against the identity management infrastructure.
If Mitigated
With proper error handling controls, only generic error messages are shown, preventing information disclosure while maintaining system functionality.
🎯 Exploit Status
The vulnerability involves triggering error conditions to extract information from error responses. No authentication is required to exploit this information disclosure issue.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Apply the fix as described in IBM Security Bulletin
Vendor Advisory: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7243303
Restart Required: Yes
Instructions:
1. Review IBM Security Bulletin for specific patch details
2. Apply the recommended fix from IBM
3. Restart the IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager service
4. Verify error messages no longer contain sensitive technical details
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Configure Generic Error Messages
allModify application configuration to return generic error messages instead of detailed technical information
Consult IBM documentation for error message configuration settings
Network Segmentation
allRestrict access to the identity manager interface to trusted networks only
Configure firewall rules to limit access to specific IP ranges
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement web application firewall (WAF) rules to filter error responses containing technical details
- Monitor and alert on unusual error message patterns in application logs
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Test the application by triggering error conditions and checking if detailed technical information is returned in error responsesCheck Version:
Check the IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager administration console for version informationVerify Fix Applied:
After applying the fix, trigger the same error conditions and verify only generic error messages are returned📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual error patterns in application logs
- Multiple error requests from single sources
- Error responses containing stack traces or technical details
Network Indicators:
- HTTP responses containing detailed error information
- Unusual error response sizes
SIEM Query:
source="ibm_identity_manager" AND (message="*error*" OR message="*exception*") AND (message="*stack*" OR message="*trace*" OR message="*technical*" OR message="*debug*")