CVE-2025-33088
Published: 17 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-33088 is a high-severity Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE-732) vulnerability in Ibm Concert. Its CVSS base score is 7.4 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique File System Permissions Weakness (T1044); ranked at the 5.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Procedures support proper permission assignment for critical resources through documented controls.
Attribute management for resources provides a mechanism to assign and maintain correct permissions based on security labels.
Prevents overly permissive assignments to critical resources by limiting to task needs.
Training policy covers correct permission assignment, reducing the ability to exploit incorrect permission assignments for critical resources.
Training on permission management reduces incorrect permission assignments for critical resources.
Audit logs and logging tools are critical resources whose protection requires correct permission assignments to block unauthorized actions.
Assessments review permission assignments on critical resources to confirm correctness, mitigating exploitation via incorrect permissions.
Certification includes checking that permissions on critical resources are correctly assigned.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Direct mapping to file system permissions weakness enabling local privilege escalation via CWE-732.
NVD Description
IBM Concert 1.0.0 through 2.1.0 could allow a local user with specific knowledge about the system's architecture to escalate their privileges due to incorrect file permissions for critical resources.
Deeper analysisAI
IBM Concert versions 1.0.0 through 2.1.0 contain a vulnerability (CVE-2025-33088) due to incorrect file permissions (CWE-732) on critical resources, which could allow a local user with specific knowledge of the system's architecture to escalate privileges. The issue received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.4 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high impact but requiring local access and high attack complexity.
A local attacker with no privileges but detailed knowledge of the system's architecture could exploit the improper permissions to gain elevated privileges, potentially achieving high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts on the affected system.
IBM has published an advisory with mitigation details at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7260161. Security practitioners should consult this resource for patching instructions and workarounds applicable to affected IBM Concert installations.
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