CVE-2025-36367: IBM I

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, and 7.2 is vulnerable to privilege escalation caused by an invalid IBM i SQL services authorization check. A malicious actor can use the elevated privileges of another user profile to gain root access to the host operating system.

Affected products

• IBM I: version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only

Published 2025-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.