CVE-2025-2898 (GCVE-0-2025-2898)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-06 14:41 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Title
IBM Maximo Application Suite privilege escalation
Summary
IBM Maximo Application Suite 9.0 could allow an attacker with some level of access to elevate their privileges due to a security configuration vulnerability in Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) configurations.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
ibm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Maximo Application Suite Affected: 9.0
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:maximo_application_suite:9.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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