IBM has urged customers using its AIX operating system to apply patches due to two severe vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-56346 and CVE-2024-56347, which allow remote execution of arbitrary commands. CVE-2024-56346 is rated 10 for severity, while CVE-2024-56347 has a score of 9.6. Both flaws can impact organizations, particularly in sectors like finance and healthcare, and pose risks of data breaches and system corruption. IBM's advisory recommends immediate updates for affected versions 7.2 and 7.3 to mitigate these vulnerabilities.
IBM has 'strongly recommended' that clients running AIX immediately apply patches due to two critical vulnerabilities that allow remote command execution.
The two vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-56346 and CVE-2024-56347, have scores of 10 and 9.6 respectively, indicating their high severity and potential impact.
Both vulnerabilities affect AIX's installation management and could lead to sensitive data access, ransomware deployment, and system corruption by remote attackers.
With around 9,000 organizations using AIX in critical sectors such as finance and healthcare, the implications of these vulnerabilities are severe and far-reaching.
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