CVE-2023-40685Improper Privilege Management in IBM I

Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
CNA7.4
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 29

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 root access to the operating system. IBM X-Force ID: 264116.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

CVEListV5ibm/i7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
NVDibm/i4 versions+3

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
CVEList
IBM i privilege escalation2023-10-29
GHSA
GHSA-jg58-8cv3-fr5r: Management Central as part of IBM i 72023-10-29
CVE-2023-40685 — Improper Privilege Management in IBM I | cvebase