Quick answers
- Is CVE-2025-36335 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-36335 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2025-36335?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.2, published 30 April 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- IBM Watsonx.Data 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.3.0, 5.3.1.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2025-36335?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2025-36335 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2025-36335?
- Check whether you run IBM Watsonx.Data at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
IBM watsonx.data intelligence (versions 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.3.0, and 5.3.1) is vulnerable to plaintext storage of passwords (CWE-256). The application stores user credentials without encryption or hashing, making them accessible to any user with local access to the underlying file system or environment where the credentials are persisted. An attacker with local access can retrieve these credentials to escalate privileges or compromise user accounts. IBM recommends updating to fixed versions as outlined in their security bulletins.
Affected products
- IBM watsonx.data intelligence 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.3.0, 5.3.1
Timeline
- 2026-04-30: disclosed
- 2026-04-30: advisory