Cross-user command-history access via controlled filename
Published Aug 19, 2026 · Updated Aug 20, 2026
External filename control in IBM DS8A00 and DS8900F HMC allows remote authenticated users to read or modify another user's command history. The HMC command-history handling trusts an externally controlled filename, causing history operations to target a different user's history file. Exploitation requires authenticated DS8K access; the affected HMC holds no customer-data files, limiting exposure to management-console history.
Summary
What happened
External filename control in IBM DS8A00 and DS8900F HMC allows remote authenticated users to read or modify another user's command history. The HMC command-history handling trusts an externally controlled filename, causing history operations to target a different user's history file. Exploitation requires authenticated DS8K access; the affected HMC holds no customer-data files, limiting exposure to management-console history.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-36398
- Published
- Aug 19, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 20, 2026
- Vendor
- IBM
- Product
- DS8A00
- Classifications
- CWE-73, T1005
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 19, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 20, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=10.1.3.0 <=10.11.35.0
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