CVE-2025-36254 (GCVE-0-2025-36254)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-19 21:22
Modified
2026-08-20 16:27
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Summary
IBM System Storage DS8A00 10.1.3.0 through 10.11.35.0 and IBM DS8900F 89.40.83.0 through 89.44.25.0 could allow an attacker to bypass security authentication due to improperly encoding of DSCLI command output to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service.
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Impacted products
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| IBM | DS8A00 (R10.0 - R10.1) |
Version: 10.1.3.0 ≤ 10.11.35.0 cpe:2.3:o:ibm:system_storage_ds8A00:10.1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:ibm:system_storage_ds8A00:10.11.35.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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