CVE-2023-30989: IBM I

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Performance Tools for i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with command line access to the host operating system can elevate privileges to gain all object access to the host operating system. IBM X-Force ID: 254017.

Affected products

• IBM I: version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only

Published 2023-07-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.