QID 379593

QID 379593: IBM Personal Communications (PCOMM) Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability (7147672)

IBM Personal Communications features virtual terminal (VT) emulation and systems network architecture (SNA) application support and provides a platform to access data and applications on different host systems.

CVE-2024-25029: IBM Personal Communications includes a Windows service that is vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) and local privilege escalation (LPE)

Affected Versions:
IBM Personal Communications 14.0.6
IBM Personal Communications 15.0.1

QID Detection Logic:(Authenticated)
It checks for vulnerable version of IBM Personal Communications by checking product version of "pcomstrt.exe"

Successful exploitation of this allows for a low privileged attacker to move laterally to affected systems and to escalate their privileges.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Low - 2.1 severity.
  • Solution
    The vendor has released a patch which can be found 7147672.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 379593

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    7147672 URL Logo www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7147672

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