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-2023-40686

Management Central as part of IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 Navigator contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with command line access to the operating system can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges to gain component access to the operating system. IBM...

CVE-2023-40686

CVE-2023-40686 is a local privilege escalation in IBM i Navigator's Management Central. A malicious actor with OS command-line access can elevate privileges to gain component access to the operating system. Affected products are IBM i releases 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5; the issue is associated with ...