CVE-2023-38721

IBM i privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Aug 14, 2023
Updated: Oct 9, 2024
Reserved: Jul 25, 2023

Description

The IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 product Facsimile Support for i contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor could gain access to a command line with elevated privileges allowing root access to the host operating system. IBM X-Force ID: 262173.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ibm

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
iIBM	7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5Affected

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7023423vendor-advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262173vdb-entry

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