CVE-2023-40685

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.002 · 5 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.15% (5th) EPSS

CVSS 7.8 · high

Is it mine?

9 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Management Central as part of IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 Navigator contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with command line access to the operating system can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges to gain root access to the operating system. IBM X-Force ID: 264116.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.8highAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · psirt@us.ibm.com USexploitability 1.4 · impact 5.9

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-269USprimaryCWE-266USCWE-269US

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

IBM i≤ 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corp. IBM i≤ 7.5fstec_bduRU
IBM Corp. IBM i≤ 7.4fstec_bduRU
IBM Corp. IBM i≤ 7.3fstec_bduRU
IBM Corp. IBM i≤ 7.2fstec_bduRU
ibm i= 7.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:i:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm i= 7.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:i:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm i= 7.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:i:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm i= 7.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:i:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-10-29modified 2026-06-17

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references (8)

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