CVE-2025-36091
📋 TL;DR
This vulnerability in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation allows authenticated users to assign invalid ownership to dashboards, potentially making them inaccessible to legitimate users. It affects versions 25.0.0, 24.0.1, and 24.0.0. The issue requires authenticated access to exploit.
💻 Affected Systems
- IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Critical business dashboards become permanently inaccessible, disrupting business operations and decision-making processes that rely on these dashboards.
Likely Case
Temporary disruption of dashboard access requiring administrative intervention to restore proper ownership assignments.
If Mitigated
Minimal impact with proper access controls and monitoring in place to detect and quickly remediate unauthorized ownership changes.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires authenticated access but appears to be straightforward based on the CWE-283 (Unverified Ownership) classification.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Apply fix as specified in IBM advisory
Vendor Advisory: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7249999
Restart Required: Yes
Instructions:
1. Review IBM advisory at provided URL
2. Apply the recommended fix or upgrade to a patched version
3. Restart affected services
4. Verify dashboard functionality post-patch
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Restrict Dashboard Management Permissions
allLimit dashboard ownership assignment capabilities to trusted administrators only
Implement Dashboard Access Monitoring
allMonitor dashboard access logs for unusual ownership changes
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement strict access controls to limit who can modify dashboard ownership
- Increase monitoring of dashboard access and ownership changes
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation version against affected versions (25.0.0, 24.0.1, 24.0.0)Check Version:
Check product documentation for version verification commands specific to your deploymentVerify Fix Applied:
Verify version is updated beyond affected versions and test dashboard ownership assignment functionality📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual dashboard ownership changes
- Failed dashboard access attempts from legitimate users
- Multiple ownership reassignment events
Network Indicators:
- Increased API calls to dashboard management endpoints
SIEM Query:
source="ibm-cloud-pak" AND (event_type="dashboard_ownership_change" OR event_type="dashboard_access_denied")