CVE-2024-27273: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM AIX's Unix domain (AIX 7.2, 7.3, VIOS 3.1, and VIOS 4.1) datagram socket implementation could potentially expose applications using Unix domain datagram sockets with SO_PEERID operation and may lead to privilege escalation. IBM X-Force ID: 284903.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only
• IBM Vios: version 3.1 only; version 4.1 only

Published 2024-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.