CVE-2025-2947
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.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.2
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.42%
- CWE
- CWE-278
- Published
- 2025-04-17
- Last modified
- 2026-03-12
Affected products
- IBM i
Weakness type
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