The following vulnerabilities that can affect IBM Storage Scale and IBM Storage Scale System and the Management GUI are now fixed in 5.2.3.9/6.2.3.7 or higher and 6.0.1.1/7.0.1.1 or higher

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-76052
StatePUBLISHED
Assigneribm
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-11-08 18:17:04 UTC
Updated2026-11-09 15:17:21 UTC
DescriptionIBM Storage Scale System 6.2.3.0 through 6.2.3.6, and 7.0.0.0 through 7.0.1.0 and IBM Storage Scale 6.0.0.0 through 6.0.1.0, and 5.2.3.0 through 5.2.3.8 could allow an attacker to leverage an undocumented flag to gain access to an unauthenticated path in the REST API.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 6 MEDIUM from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-288 | CWE-288 CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary6MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
3.1CNACVSS6MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA IBM Storage Scale System affected 6.2.3.0 6.2.3.6 semver Not specified
CNA IBM Storage Scale System affected 7.0.0.0 7.0.1.0 semver Not specified
CNA IBM Storage Scale affected 6.0.0.0 6.0.1.0 semver Not specified
CNA IBM Storage Scale affected 5.2.3.0 5.2.3.8 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7295211 [email protected] www.ibm.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Additional Advisory Data

Solutions

CNA: For IBM Storage Scale 5.2.3.x, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by upgrading to 5.2.3.9 or later: https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Storage+Scale&release=5.2.3&platform=All&function=all For IBM Storage Scale 6.0.x, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by upgrading to 6.0.1.1 or later: https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Storage+Scale&release=6.0.1&platform=All&function=all For IBM Storage Scale System 6.2.3.x, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by upgrading to 6.2.3.7 or later: https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Storage+Scale+System&release=6.2.3&platform=All&function=all For IBM Storage Scale System 7.0.x, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by upgrading to 7.0.1.1 or later: https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Storage+Scale+System&release=7.0.1&platform=All&function=all

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