CVE-2024-31891

HIGH

IBM Storage Scale GUI <5.2.1.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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.

References (1)

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7178098

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0004

EPSS Percentile 11.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-250

Status published

Products (1)

ibm/storage_scale 5.1.9.0 - 5.1.9.7

Published Dec 14, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026