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Improper Authorization in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Maintenance Utility

IdentifiersCVE-2025-2902CWE-285

CVE-2025-2902 is an improper authorization vulnerability in the Maintenance Utility of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform systems. According to the provided content, the issue affects multiple VSP product families, including E390, E590, E790, E990, E1090, E390H, E590H, E790H, E1090H before DKCMAIN 93-07-26-xx/00 and GUM 93-07-26/00; VSP 5100, 5500, 5100H, 5500H, 5200, 5600, 5200H, 5600H before DKCMAIN 90-09-27-00/00 and GUM 90-09-27/00; and VSP G130, G150, G350, G370, G700, G900, F350, F370, F700, F900 before DKCMAIN 88-08-16-xx/00 and GUM 88-08-20/00. The flaw is described as remotely exploitable and stems from improper authorization controls in the maintenance utility, allowing actions beyond intended authorization boundaries.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation can compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability, consistent with the provided CVSS characteristics indicating High impact across all three dimensions. Because the flaw is an authorization weakness in a maintenance utility on enterprise storage platforms, exploitation could allow an attacker with the required privileges to perform unauthorized maintenance-level operations, potentially exposing sensitive data, altering configuration or system state, and disrupting storage services.

Mitigation

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If immediate patching is not possible, restrict network access to the Maintenance Utility to trusted administrative networks only, minimize and tightly control accounts with high privileges, and monitor for unauthorized maintenance or administrative actions. Because the issue is remotely exploitable and requires high privileges per the provided CVSS data, reducing exposure of the management interface and enforcing strict privileged-access controls are the most relevant interim measures. Product-specific temporary mitigations beyond access restriction are not provided in the available content.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Update affected Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform systems to the fixed or later software versions identified by Hitachi. For affected E-series systems, update to DKCMAIN 93-07-26-xx/00 or later and GUM 93-07-26/00 or later. For affected 5000-series systems, update to DKCMAIN 90-09-27-00/00 or later and GUM 90-09-27/00 or later. For affected G/F-series systems, update to DKCMAIN 88-08-16-xx/00 or later and GUM 88-08-20/00 or later.
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EXTERNAL REFERENCES
MITRE CVE
cve.org · CVE-2025-2902
NVD
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2902
MITRE CWE · CWE-285
cwe.mitre.org