CVE-2023-38736

CVSS 3.1 Score 7.8 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Sep 8, 2023
Updated: Sep 13, 2023

Summary

CVE-2023-38736 is a local escalation of privilege vulnerability affecting IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent versions 10.0 to 10.1.6. An attacker who has normal user access can exploit this issue to elevate their privileges and obtain SYSTEM permissions, if the agent is installed and running with ADMIN or SYSTEM privileges. This vulnerability, identified as IBM X-Force ID: 262542, poses a significant risk to security and requires affected organizations to apply the necessary patches to mitigate the threat.

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