CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-36017

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable

Published: Dec 08, 2025 | Modified: Dec 10, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-36017
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/526.html

IBM Controller 11.1.0 through 11.1.1 and IBM Cognos Controller 11.0.0 through 11.0.1 FP6 stores unencrypted sensitive information in environmental variables files which can be obtained by an authenticated user.

Weakness

The product uses an environment variable to store unencrypted sensitive information.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Controller	Ibm	11.1.0 (including)	11.1.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7253283

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