# CVE-2025-1095: IBM Personal Communications command execution

> Local attackers can escalate privileges to SYSTEM via a vulnerable Windows service in IBM Personal Communications.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w9x5-m47g-3gx6

## What is CVE-2025-1095?

CVE-2025-1095 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Personal Communications, published on 8 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-420 (Unprotected Alternate Channel)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1095?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Personal Communications.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-1095?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1095 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-1095 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1095 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM Personal Communications

- [CVE-2012-0201](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-0201/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2024-25029](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25029/): IBM Personal Communications code execution (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2016-0321](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-0321/): Information disclosure in n/a (medium 6.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-1095 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-1095 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Personal Communications, published on 8 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1095 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM Personal Communications. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1095/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1095/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1095
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1095
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1095

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1095/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.