CVE-2023-40686

IBM i privilege escalation

State
Published
Severity
4.9 Medium
Published
Oct 29, 2023
Updated
Sep 6, 2024
Reserved
Aug 18, 2023

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Description

Management Central as part of IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 Navigator contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with command line access to the operating system can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges to gain component access to the operating system. IBM X-Force ID: 264114.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Libm

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

ProductVersions
iIBM
  • 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5Affected

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