{"id":228148,"date":"2025-12-31T21:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ibm-warns-of-critical-api-connect-bug-allowing-remote-authentication-bypass"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:10:03","slug":"ibm-warns-of-critical-api-connect-bug-allowing-remote-authentication-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ibm-warns-of-critical-api-connect-bug-allowing-remote-authentication-bypass","title":{"rendered":"IBM Warns of Critical API Connect Bug Allowing Remote Authentication Bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibm-warns-of-critical-api-connect-bug-allowing-remote-authentication-bypass.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IBM has disclosed details of a critical security flaw in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/products\/api-connect\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">API Connect<\/a> that could allow attackers to gain remote access to the application.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, tracked as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cve.org\/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-13915\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2025\u201313915<\/a><\/strong>, is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as an authentication bypass flaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIBM API Connect could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication mechanisms and gain unauthorized access to the application,\u201d the tech giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/support\/pages\/node\/7255149\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a bulletin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has disclosed details of a critical security flaw in API Connect that could allow attackers to gain remote access to the application. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025\u201313915, is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as an authentication bypass flaw. \u201cIBM API Connect could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}