Medium (6.7) in ibm robotic process automation. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.0 through 21.0.7.17 and 23.0.0 through 23.0.18 could allow a local user to escalate their privileges. All files in the install inherit the file permissions of the parent directory and therefore a non-privileged user can substitute any executable for the nssm.exe service. A subsequent service or server restart will then run that binary with administrator privilege.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
6.7 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)