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CVE-2025-2947

IBM i privilege escalation



Description

IBM i 7.6  contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to incorrect profile swapping in an OS command.  A malicious actor can use the command to elevate privileges to gain root access to the host operating system.

Reserved 2025-03-29 | Published 2025-04-17 | Updated 2025-04-22 | Assigner ibm


HIGH: 7.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-278 Insecure Preserved Inherited Permissions

Product status

Default status
unaffected

7.6
affected

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7231025 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-2947)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-2947)

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