CVE-2023-25924IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager improper authorization

5.4MediumCVSS base score
0.40%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 65% of all CVEs
NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
NonePublic exploitsnone known yet

Description

IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager 3.0, 3.0.1, 4.0, 4.1, and 4.1.1 could allow an authenticated user to perform actions that they should not have access to due to improper authorization. IBM X-Force ID: 247630.

Timeline

2023
16 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023
ID reserved
By ibm
21 Mar 202333 days later
21 Mar 2023· 33 days later
Published
2025
26 Feb 202524 months later
26 Feb 2025· 24 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2023-25924, by who scored it
Scored by	CVSS	Score	Vector
ibmCNA (assigner)	3.1	Medium5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVDNVD · Modified	3.1	High8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days): 0.40% · top 65% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC: Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.

Affected products

IBM · Security Key Lifecycle Manager
- affected 3.0, 3.0.1, 4.0, 4.1 , 4.1.1

References2

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6962729 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247630 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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Record last updated 26 Feb 2025, 16:48 UTC.