IBM Storage Virtualize 8.5-8.7 Privilege Escalation via Race Condition in
CVE-2025-1351 Published on July 7, 2025

IBM Storage Virtualize privilege escalation
IBM Storage Virtualize 8.5, 8.6, and 8.7 products could allow a user to escalate their privileges to that of another user logging in at the same time due to a race condition in the login function.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-1351 can be exploited with local system access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
HIGH
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is a Race Condition Vulnerability?

The program contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.

CVE-2025-1351 has been classified to as a Race Condition vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2025-1351

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Affected Versions

IBM Storage Virtualize:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.03%
Percentile
9.27%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.