Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-2947

High

Published: 17 April 2025

Published
17 April 2025
Modified
17 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0017 37.5th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-2947 is a high-severity Insecure Preserved Inherited Permissions (CWE-278) vulnerability in Ibm I. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 37.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

IBM i 7.6  contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to incorrect profile swapping in an OS command.  A malicious actor can use the command to elevate privileges to gain root access to the host operating system.

CWE(s)
CWE-278

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

ibm
i
7.6

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References