CVE-2024-31890

IBM i privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jun 21, 2024
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Apr 7, 2024

Description

IBM i 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 product IBM TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities for i contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with command line access to the host operating system can elevate privileges to gain root access to the host operating system. IBM X-Force ID: 288171.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ibm

Weaknesses

CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Affected Products

Product	Versions
iIBM	7.3, 7.4, 7.5Affected

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7158240vendor-advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/288171vdb-entry

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