# CVE-2025-1351: IBM Storage Virtualize privilege escalation

> A race condition in the login function allows users to escalate privileges to another concurrent user in IBM Storage Virtualize.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9x5c-xp25-xffw

## What is CVE-2025-1351?

CVE-2025-1351 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Storage Virtualize, published on 7 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1351?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Storage Virtualize.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-1351?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1351 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-1351 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1351 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM Storage Virtualize

- [CVE-2025-0159](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0159/): IBM FlashSystem authentication bypass (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2025-36120](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-36120/): IBM Storage Virtualize privilege escalation (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-0160](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0160/): IBM FlashSystem code execution (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2025-36118](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-36118/): IBM Storage Virtualize Information Disclosure (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2023-43042](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-43042/): IBM Storage Virtualize information disclosure (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-1351 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-1351 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Storage Virtualize, published on 7 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1351 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM Storage Virtualize. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1351/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1351/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1351
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1351
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1351

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1351/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.