What is CVE-2025-36143?

CVE-2025-36143 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Watsonx.data, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2025-09-18.

How severe is CVE-2025-36143?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

RCE in IBM Watsonx.data

CVE-2025-36143

IBM Lakehouse (watsonx.data 2.2) could allow an authenticated privileged user to execute arbitrary commands on the system due to improper validation of user supplied input.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2025-09-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (24.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 24.9% 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-78 — OS Command Injection

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7245379 (vendor-advisory, patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-36143?: CVE-2025-36143 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Watsonx.data, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2025-09-18.
How severe is CVE-2025-36143?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.