CVE-2025-36120 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting IBM Storage Virtualize versions 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, and 8.7. An authenticated user can exploit incorrect authorization checks within an SSH session to gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 8.4.0.0, < 8.4.0.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:storage_virtualize:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.5.0.0, < 8.5.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:storage_virtualize:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.5.2.0, <= 8.5.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:storage_virtualize:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.6.0.0, < 8.6.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:storage_virtualize:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.7.0.0, < 8.7.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:storage_virtualize:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.