CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-31891

7.8 HIGH Published 2024-12-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-12-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-250

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• ibm storage scale (>= 5.1.9.0 < 5.1.9.7) • ibm storage scale (>= 5.2.0.0 < 5.2.2.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges weakness

References