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CVE-2025-33109 (GCVE-0-2025-33109)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-24 15:06 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:50

Title

IBM i privilege escalation

Summary

IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation caused by an invalid database authority check. A bad actor could execute a database procedure or function without having all required permissions, in addition to causing denial of service for some database actions.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-07-25 03:55 UTC

CWE

CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Assigner

ibm mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7240410	vendor-advisorypatch

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
IBM	i	Affected: 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.6:::::::*

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FKIE_CVE-2025-33109

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-07-24 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:13

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	psirt@us.ibm.com	https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7240410	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
ibm	i	7.2
ibm	i	7.3
ibm	i	7.4
ibm	i	7.5
ibm	i	7.6

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  "affected": [
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          "cpes": [
            "cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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    }
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GHSA-FWP5-77CH-C7C8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-07-25 15:30 – Updated: 2025-07-25 15:30

Details

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-33109"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-250"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-07-24T15:15:25Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-fwp5-77ch-c7c8",
  "modified": "2025-07-25T15:30:45Z",
  "published": "2025-07-25T15:30:45Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-33109"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7240410"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

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