CVE-2025-14604 (GCVE-0-2025-14604)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-03 19:48 – Updated: 2026-03-04 14:18
VLAI
Title
The following vulnerabilities, which may affect IBM Storage Scale when a directory has a specific ACL composition and could lead to improper execute permissions, have been remediated in Storage Scale versions 5.2.3.6 and 6.0.0.2
Summary
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Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-03-04 04:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7262312 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM Storage Scale Affected: IBM S , ≤ rage Scale 5.2.3.0 - 5.2.3.5 (semver)
Affected: IBM S , ≤ rage Scale 6.0.0.0 - 6.0.0.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:storage_scale:ibm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:storage_scale:rage:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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