CVE-2024-51448: IBM Robotic Process Automation

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.0 through 21.0.7.17 and 23.0.0 through 23.0.18 could allow a local user to escalate their privileges. All files in the install inherit the file permissions of the parent directory and therefore a non-privileged user can substitute any executable for the nssm.exe service. A subsequent service or server restart will then run that binary with administrator privilege.

Affected products

• IBM Robotic Process Automation: from 21.0.0, up to and including 21.0.7.17; from 23.0.0, up to and including 23.0.18

Published 2025-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.