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CVE-2023-40685

IBM i privilege escalation

High7.4EPSS 0.16%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
ibm

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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2023-40685, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
ibmCNA (assigner)3.1High7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Modified3.1High7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.16% · top 95% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.

Weakness

Affected products

  • IBM · i

    • affected 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

References (2)

Sources

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