CVE-2023-23470

IBM i privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 6.4 Medium
Published: May 4, 2023
Updated: Jan 29, 2025
Reserved: Jan 12, 2023

Description

IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 could allow an authenticated privileged administrator to gain elevated privileges in non-default configurations, as a result of improper SQL processing. By using a specially crafted SQL operation, the administrator could exploit the vulnerability to perform additional administrator operations. IBM X-Force ID: 244510.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ibm
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
iIBM	7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5Affected

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6987767vendor-advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/244510vdb-entry

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