CVE-2024-27275 (GCVE-0-2024-27275)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-06-15 13:49
Modified
2025-09-29 15:04
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM i Version: 7.2
Version: 7.3
Version: 7.4
Version: 7.5
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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