CVE-2025-3473 (GCVE-0-2025-3473)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-11 14:24
Modified
2025-06-14 03:56
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-277 - Insecure Inherited Permissions
Summary
IBM Security Guardium 12.1 could allow a local privileged user to escalate their privileges to root due to insecure inherited permissions created by the program.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Security Guardium Version: 12.1
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:security_guardium:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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