CVE-2024-27275: IBM i privilege escalation

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-06-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-266

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.

Affected products

IBM i: 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

References

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

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