CVE-2024-27275: IBM I

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

IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability caused by an insufficient authority requirement. A local user without administrator privilege can configure a physical file trigger to execute with the privileges of a user socially engineered to access the target file. The correction is to require administrator privilege to configure trigger support.

Affected products

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

Published 2024-06-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.