CVE-2026-13460 HIGH

CVE-2026-13460: The following vulnerabilities that can affect IBM Storage Scale and the Management GUI are now fixed in 5.2.3.9 or higher and 6.0.1.1 or higher

Vendor Ibm
Product Storage Scale
Weakness CWE-798 · Hardcoded credentials
Published August 13, 2026
Last update August 13, 2026
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CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

IBM Storage Scale 5.2.3.0 through 5.2.3.8, and 6.0.0.0 through 6.0.1.0 GUI contains a hardcoded token in the source code, which was used for inter-node cluster communication and REST API authentication between GUI.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 13, 2026 CVE published

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