CVE-2025-33020
Ibm Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody 10.0 … 9.0.2
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NSummary
CVE-2025-33020 is a medium-severity Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data (CWE-311) vulnerability in Ibm Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SC-13 (Cryptographic Protection) and SC-8 (Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-22451
Vulnerability Data
IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody 9.0.2, 10.0, and 10.0.1 transmits sensitive information without encryption that could allow an attacker to obtain highly sensitive information.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires cryptographic mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of sensitive information during transmission, addressing the exact flaw in Rhapsody.
Mandates use of cryptography to protect sensitive data, directly mitigating the missing encryption of transmitted information.
Requires confidentiality protections for transmitted information, though narrower than SC-8 and now largely superseded by it.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
PR.DS-01 directly mandates encryption for data-at-rest and therefore prevents CWE-311 mostly for storage, yet the weakness also spans transmission and other contexts that this single at-rest control leaves unaddressed.
PR.DS-02 directly eliminates the transmission facet of CWE-311 via mandatory encryption but leaves the storage facet untouched, so each direction rates only partial.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Explicit rules requiring encryption for sensitive information in transit eliminate the weakness of sending data without cryptographic protection.
Explicitly calling for protection of data in transit and at rest, plus secure encryption of communications, drives the implementation of encryption that prevents clear-text exposure of sensitive information.