- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.31%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 76% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
What to do
Solution: Remediation/Fixes IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now. IBM i Release 5770-SS1 PTF Number(s) PTF Download Link(s) 7.6 SJ07552 SJ07650 SJ07651 SJ07652 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07552 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07650 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07651 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07652 7.5 SJ07553 SJ07653 SJ07654 SJ07655 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07553 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07653 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07654 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07655 7.4 SJ07554 SJ07656 SJ07657 SJ07658 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07554 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07656 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07657 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07658 7.3 SJ07555 SJ07659 SJ07660 SJ07661 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07555 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07659 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07660 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07661 7.2 SJ07556 SJ07662 SJ07663 SJ07664 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07556 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07662 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07663 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ07664 IBM recommends that all users running unsupported versions of affected products upgrade to a supported version of the affected product.
References
References1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7249915 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatch
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-37433 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-36367)Record last updated .