What is CVE-2025-3473?

CVE-2025-3473 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Guardium Data Protection, classified under Insecure Inherited Permissions. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2025-06-11.

How severe is CVE-2025-3473?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.

Vulnerability in IBM Guardium Data Protection

CVE-2025-3473

IBM Security Guardium 12.1 could allow a local privileged user to escalate their privileges to root due to insecure inherited permissions created by the program.

Published 2025-06-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (3.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 3rd percentile — 3.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Guardium Data Protection — versions 11.5, 12.1
IBM Security Guardium — versions 12.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-277 — Insecure Inherited Permissions

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7236356 (vendor-advisory, patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-3473?: CVE-2025-3473 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Guardium Data Protection, classified under Insecure Inherited Permissions. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2025-06-11.
How severe is CVE-2025-3473?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.