IBM i is Affected By A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability [] (IBM i)

CVE-2026-18669
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.75 % · percentile 55 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
ibm
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation as the result of a remote code execution vulnerability in the activation engine component. An authenticated attacker can execute a maliciously planted script with root authority.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-250 — Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hibm
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
IBM · iaffected 7.6 ; affected 7.5 ; affected 7.4 ; affected 7.3

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD