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CVE-2024-27275

IBM i privilege escalation

Published: Jun 15, 2024Updated: Sep 29, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-266
NVD MITRE
7.4CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 95.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:HPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-266CWE-287

Affected Products

iibm
On-prem
Operating Systems
IBM iIBM Corp.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / unix-bsd
iIBM
On-prem
Operating Systems
ibmcommercialUSEnterprise Softwareaka international business machines
ibm corp.commercialUSDatabasesaka ibm, ibm corporation

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
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References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7157637
ibm.com
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285203
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7157637
ibm.com
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Timeline

Published
Jun 15, 2024
Last Updated
Sep 29, 2025

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