CVE 7.4 HIGH

IBM AIX privilege escalation_CVE-2025-36244

7.4 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, 7.3, IBM VIOS 3.1, and 4.1, when configured to use Kerberos network authentication, could allow a local user to write to files on the system with root privileges due to improper initialization of critical variables.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-36244
Source ibm
Published Sep 16, 2025 at 14:38
Modified Sep 16, 2025 at 16:16

Affected Product

Vendor IBM
Product AIX
Version 7.2
Affected Versions IBM AIX 7.2
IBM AIX 7.3
IBM VIOS 3.1
IBM VIOS 4.1

CWE Classification

References

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