🛡️ CVE-2025-1178 — active-iq-unified-manager

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, 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 low, integrity low, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-1178 is classified as CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds. A read or write is performed without confirming it stays inside the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory.

Affected software

CVE-2025-1178 is recorded against 3 packages.

• active-iq-unified-manager
• binutils
• ontap-select-deploy-administration-utility

Timeline and source

Published on 11 February 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

active-iq-unified-manager has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2025-30722 (5.3 Medium, published 15 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2025-31672 (5.3 Medium, published 9 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2025-26465 (6.8 Medium, published 18 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2024-56171 (7.8 High, published 18 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2025-24928 (7.8 High, published 18 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2025-1181 (5.0 Medium, published 11 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2025-24970 (7.5 High, published 10 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2025-0411 (7.0 High, published 25 Jan 2025)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds) in other software:

• CVE-2017-12862 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2017-12601 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-1941 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2013-4179 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2013-4155 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2013-0270 (published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-33162 (7.3 High, published 16 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2022-33267 (6.7 Medium, published 6 Jun 2023)

CVE-2025-1178 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

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