CVE-2025-36255
DS8900F and DS8A00 Privilege Escalation
02 Description
DS8900F and DS8A00 Privilege Escalation
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 29.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-09-29.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-08-19 21:22Z2 MO AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-08-20 16:27Z2 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2025-04-15
- Assigning CNA
- ibm
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-267Privilege Defined With Unsafe ActionsBase
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- fb08d220958bdb2b6a9a70a22731684e13a71e43783c7a772077fd635b5f34be
05 Affected products
06 References
07 Remediation
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now. Refer to https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ds8000-code-recommendation for instructions on how to upgrade the Microcode Bundles listed below and other information. DS8A00 fixes are delivered in Microcode Bundle 10.11.34.1 and 10.12.39.0 Note: Customers currently on 10.11.34.0 may update to 10.11.34.1. This is an HMC-only update and does not require a full code update. DS8900F fixes are delivered in Microcode Bundle 89.44.17.1, 89.44.25.1, 89.44.26.0 and 89.45.10.0. Note: Customers currently on 89.44.17.0 may update to 89.44.17.1. This is an HMC-only update and does not require a full code update. Customers currently on 89.44.25.0 may update to 89.44.25.1. This is an HMC-only update and does not require a full code update. 89.44.26.0 is full code update.