CWE-242: CWE-242

Total CVEs

Critical

High

7.8

Avg CVSS

Yearly Trend

2025

2021

Top Affected Vendors

1 Ibm 2

2 Azeotech 1

All CWE-242 CVEs (3)

CVE-2025-1994

7.8

CVE-2025-1994 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in IBM Cognos Command Center that allows authenticated local users to execute arbitrary co...

Aug 26, 2025

CVE-2025-1331

7.8

This vulnerability in IBM CICS TX products allows local users to execute arbitrary code on the system due to unsafe use of the gets() function, which ...

May 8, 2025

CVE-2021-42543

7.8

This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code, reboot systems, or shut down systems by tricking users into opening a malicious project...

Nov 5, 2021

About CWE-242 (CWE-242)

Our database tracks 3 CVEs classified as CWE-242, with 0 rated critical and 3 rated high severity. The average CVSS score for CWE-242 vulnerabilities is 7.8.

External reference: View CWE-242 on MITRE CWE →

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