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.
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.
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:- Version 8.5 is affected.
- Version 8.6 is affected.
- Version 8.7 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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