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FKIE_CVE-2025-3473

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-06-11 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:20

Severity

6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

IBM Security Guardium 12.1 could allow a local privileged user to escalate their privileges to root due to insecure inherited permissions created by the program.

References

	URL	Tags
	psirt@us.ibm.com	https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7236356	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ibm	guardium_data_protection	11.5
	ibm	guardium_data_protection	12.1

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CVE-2025-3473 (GCVE-0-2025-3473)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-11 14:24 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:50

Title

IBM Security Guardium privilege escalation

Summary

IBM Security Guardium 12.1 could allow a local privileged user to escalate their privileges to root due to insecure inherited permissions created by the program.

Severity

6.7 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-06-14 03:56 UTC

CWE

CWE-277 - Insecure Inherited Permissions

Assigner

ibm mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7236356	vendor-advisorypatch

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
IBM	Security Guardium	Affected: 12.1 cpe:2.3:a:ibm:security_guardium:12.1:::::::*

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