IBM Personal Communications 14/15 Windows Service memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in IBM Personal Communications 14/15. This affects an unknown function of the component Windows Service. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-1095. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in IBM Personal Communications 14/15. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Windows Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Personal Communications v14 and v15 include a Windows service that is vulnerable to local privilege escalation (LPE). The vulnerability allows any interactively logged in users on the target computer to run commands with full privileges in the context of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. This allows for a low privileged attacker to escalate their privileges. This vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-25029.

It is possible to read the advisory at ibm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-1095 since 02/06/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/13/2025).

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.0

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

02/06/2025 🔍
04/08/2025 +60 days 🔍
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08/13/2025 +127 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: ibm.com

Advisory: ibm.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-1095 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-1095
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-303839

Entryinfo

Created: 04/08/2025 17:38
Updated: 08/13/2025 06:12
Changes: 04/08/2025 17:38 (64), 08/13/2025 06:12 (12)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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