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fkie_cve-2025-36137

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-10-30 19:16

Modified

2025-10-30 19:16

Severity ?

7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

IBM Sterling Connect Direct for Unix 6.2.0.7 through 6.2.0.9 iFix004, 6.4.0.0 through 6.4.0.2 iFix001, and 6.3.0.2 through 6.3.0.5 iFix002 incorrectly assigns permissions for maintenance tasks to Control Center Director (CCD) users that could allow a privileged user to escalate their privileges further due to unnecessary privilege assignment for post update scripts.

References

	URL	Tags
	psirt@us.ibm.com	https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7249678

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2025-36137 (GCVE-0-2025-36137)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-10-30 18:53

Modified

2025-11-01 03:55

Severity ?

7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Summary

IBM Sterling Connect Direct for Unix 6.2.0.7 through 6.2.0.9 iFix004, 6.4.0.0 through 6.4.0.2 iFix001, and 6.3.0.2 through 6.3.0.5 iFix002 incorrectly assigns permissions for maintenance tasks to Control Center Director (CCD) users that could allow a privileged user to escalate their privileges further due to unnecessary privilege assignment for post update scripts.

References

URL

Tags

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7249678

vendor-advisory, patch

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	IBM	Sterling Connect:Direct for Unix	Version: 6.2.0.7 ≤ 6.2.0.9 iFix004 Version: 6.4.0.0 ≤ 6.4.0.2 iFix001 Version: 6.3.0.2 ≤ 6.3.0.5 iFix002 cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sterling_connect\:direct:6.2.0.7:::::unix:: cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sterling_connect\:direct:6.2.0.9:ifix004::::unix::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sterling_connect\:direct:6.4.0.0:::::unix:: cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sterling_connect\:direct:6.4.0.2.:ifix001::::unix::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sterling_connect\:direct:6.3.0.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sterling_connect\:direct:6.3.0.5.:ifix002::::unix::*

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