🛡️ CVE-2023-43042 — storage-virtualize

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1393 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Storwize, IBM FlashSystem and IBM Storage Virtualize 8.3 products use default passwords for a privileged user. IBM X-Force ID: 266874.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2023-43042 is recorded against 1 package.

  • storage-virtualize

Timeline and source

Published on 14 December 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-1393
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-12-14
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
storage-virtualize

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