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CVE-2022-41739IBM Spectrum Scale privilege escalation
- 7.9HighCVSS base score
- 0.20%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 90% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
IBM Spectrum Scale (IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access 5.1.2.1 through 5.1.6.0) could allow programs running inside the container to overcome isolation mechanism and gain additional capabilities or access sensitive information on the host. IBM X-Force ID: 237815.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 22 months later
· 22 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.9.
Affected products
IBM · Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access
- affected 5.1.2.1 – < 5.1.6.0
References
References2
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6964568 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237815 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-44910 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-41739)Record last updated .