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CVE-2024-31890 (GCVE-0-2024-31890)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-21 09:39 – Updated: 2024-08-02 01:59
VLAI
Title
IBM i privilege escalation
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-24 15:21 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM i Affected: 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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