# CVE-2025-14604: Privilege escalation in Storage Scale

> Local users can gain unintended execute permissions on resources due to improper ACL handling in IBM Storage Scale.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **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:** 3 Mar 2026
- **Updated:** 4 Mar 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-q86w-wgjw-p4mp

## What is CVE-2025-14604?

CVE-2025-14604 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Storage Scale, published on 3 Mar 2026. 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 Scale IBM S through rage Scale 5.2.3.0 - 5.2.3.5, and IBM S through rage Scale 6.0.0.0 - 6.0.0.1 could allow a local user to unintentionally trigger additional permissions for resources in a way that allows that resource to be executed by unintended actors.

Weakness: CWE-732 (Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14604?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Storage Scale.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-14604?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14604 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-14604 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14604 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM Storage Scale

- [CVE-2024-31891](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-31891/): IBM Storage Scale privilege escalation (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2026-13460](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-13460/): Hardcoded credentials in Storage Scale (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2025-1137](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1137/): IBM Storage Scale command injection (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-31892](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-31892/): IBM Storage Scale SQL injection (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2026-19483](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-19483/): Information disclosure in Storage Scale (high 7.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14604 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-14604 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Storage Scale, published on 3 Mar 2026. 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-2025-14604 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM Storage Scale. 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-2025-14604/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14604/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14604
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14604
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14604

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14604/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.