FKIE_CVE-2024-31891

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-12-14 13:15 - Updated: 2025-07-25 20:57
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
IBM Storage Scale GUI 5.1.9.0 through 5.1.9.6 and 5.2.0.0 through 5.2.1.1 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with command line access to the 'scalemgmt' user can elevate privileges to gain root access to the host operating system.
References
psirt@us.ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7178098Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ibm storage_scale *
ibm storage_scale *
linux linux_kernel -
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