What is CVE-2025-36140?

CVE-2025-36140 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Watsonx.data, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-12-08.

How severe is CVE-2025-36140?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in IBM Watsonx.data

CVE-2025-36140

IBM watsonx.data 2.2 through 2.2.1 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service through ingestion pods due to improper allocation of resources without limits.

Published 2025-12-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (19.1th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 19th percentile — 19.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Watsonx.data — versions 2.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7253932 (vendor-advisory, patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-36140?: CVE-2025-36140 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Watsonx.data, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-12-08.
How severe is CVE-2025-36140?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.