Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Hitachi Storage Plug-in for VMware vCenter

published 2022-10-06 4y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-34884

cvss: 5.4; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits: 0; none known

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Hitachi Hitachi Storage Plug-in for VMware vCenter allows remote authenticated users to cause privilege escalation.This issue affects Hitachi Storage Plug-in for VMware vCenter: from 04.8.0 before 04.9.0.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Hitachi Hitachi Storage Plug-in for VMware vCenter 04.9.0

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Exploit prediction

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Hitachi Hitachi Storage Plug-in for VMware vCenter

Classification

Weakness

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

hitachi.com /products/it/software/security/info/vuls/hitachi-sec-2022-131/index.html
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-2637
NVD CVE-2022-2637

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