CVE-2024-27275CWE-266

IBM i privilege escalation

High · published June 15, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.4 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00155 · 4.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Published
2024-06-15T13:49Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 JUN 13:49Z
    IBM i privilege escalation
    cvelistv5