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CVE-2025-36064 — Ibm Sterling Connect:Express security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.9

IBM Sterling Connect:Express for Microsoft Windows 3.1.0.0 through 3.1.0.22 uses an inadequate account lockout setting that could allow a remote attacker to brute force account credentials.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.9 (3.1)
Published
2025-09-22
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
windows/system
Weaknesses
CWE-307

Affected products

  • ibm / sterling_connect:express

Matched remediation archetype

Authentication bypass and missing authentication

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Check exposure

  • Map every affected endpoint and protocol path, including alternate ports, legacy routes, recovery flows, service accounts, and machine-to-machine access.
  • Confirm which deployments enable the affected authentication mode and whether the interface is reachable from untrusted networks.
  • Review session, token, credential, and proxy trust configuration without attempting account takeover.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the supported fix and centralize fail-closed authentication before protected request handling.
  • Remove default or embedded credentials, rotate affected secrets and sessions, and bind authentication decisions to the intended audience and channel.
  • Add negative tests for alternate routes, malformed or absent credentials, recovery flows, and proxy-derived identity.

Authoritative sources

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