CVE-2025-14604 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting IBM Storage Scale versions 5.2.3.0 through 5.2.3.5 and 6.0.0.0 through 6.0.0.1. A local attacker can exploit this flaw to unintentionally grant additional permissions to resources, allowing unauthorized execution by unintended actors. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.2.3.0, < 5.2.3.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:storage_scale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.0.0.0, < 6.0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:storage_scale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.