CVE-2023-40685

HIGH

IBM i 7.2-7.5 - Local Privilege Escalation via Management Central

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7060686

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 6.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (4)
ibm/i 7.2
ibm/i 7.3
ibm/i 7.4
ibm/i 7.5
Published Oct 29, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026