Security Bulletin: IBM i is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation due to flaws in Management Central (CVE-2023-40685, CVE-2023-40686).

Summary IBM i is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation due to flaws in a Management Central as described in the vulnerability details section. The vulnerabilities exist even when Management Central is not being used for systems management tasks. IBM i has addressed the vulnerabilities with...

CVE-2023-40685

CVE-2023-40685 relates to a local privilege escalation in IBM i 7.2–7.5 when using Management Central within IBM Navigator. The Root Cause is a privilege-management flaw in Management Central that allows a user with command-line access to elevate to root. Affected products/versions: IBM i 7.2, 7....