CVE-2024-27275
IBM i privilege escalation
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.4 High
- Published
- Jun 15, 2024
- Updated
- Sep 29, 2025
- Reserved
- Feb 22, 2024
Description
IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability caused by an insufficient authority requirement. A local user without administrator privilege can configure a physical file trigger to execute with the privileges of a user socially engineered to access the target file. The correction is to require administrator privilege to configure trigger support.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.4 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | ibm |
Weaknesses
- CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
iIBM |
|
References
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7157637vendor-advisorypatch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285203vdb-entry
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