CVE-2025-1331 (GCVE-0-2025-1331)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-08 21:55 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
IBM CICS TX code execution
Summary
IBM CICS TX Standard 11.1 and IBM CICS TX Advanced 10.1 and 11.1 could allow a local user to execute arbitrary code on the system due to the use of unsafe use of the gets function.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-10 03:55 UTC
CWE
- CWE-242 - Use of Inherently Dangerous Function
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7232923 | vendor-advisorypatch |
| https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7232924 | vendor-advisorypatch |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM | CICS TX Standard |
Affected:
11.1
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cics_tx:11.1.0.0:*:*:*:standard:linux:*:* |
|
| IBM | CICS TX Advanced |
Affected:
10.1
Affected: 11.1 cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cics_tx:10.1.0.0:*:*:*:advanced:linux:*:* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cics_tx:11.1.0.0:*:*:*:advanced:linux:*:* |
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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