🛡️ CVE-2023-43018 — cics-tx

🟡 CVSS 5.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-250 NVD
5.9
CVSS Score
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Description

IBM CICS TX Standard 11.1 and Advanced 10.1, 11.1 performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. IBM X-Force ID: 266163.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-43018 is classified as CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. The software runs with more privilege than the task needs, so any flaw in it inherits that privilege.

Affected software

CVE-2023-43018 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cics-tx

Timeline and source

Published on 3 November 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www.ibm.com
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www.ibm.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-250
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-11-03
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cics-tx — —

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