CVE-2025-33103

HIGH

IBM TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 product IBM TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities for i contains a 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.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory patch

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7233799

Scores

CVSS v3 8.5

EPSS 0.0035

EPSS Percentile 26.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-250

Status published

Products (5)

ibm/i 7.2

ibm/i 7.3

ibm/i 7.4

ibm/i 7.5

ibm/i 7.6

Published May 17, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026