Vulnerability · Published Apr 6, 2024 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2024-25029IBM Personal Communications code execution

Critical 9.0

In plain English

A critical-severity memory corruption in Personal Communications from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.8% (higher than 56% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.0Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)0.8%top 43.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

IBM Personal Communications 14.0.6 through 15.0.1 includes a Windows service that is vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) and local privilege escalation (LPE). The vulnerability allows any unprivileged user with network access to a target computer to run commands with full privileges in the context of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. This allows for a low privileged attacker to move laterally to affected systems and to escalate their privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 281619.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
IBM Personal Communications 14.0.6 – through 15.0.1

Weakness: CWE-119 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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