CVE-2026-16822

Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS

At a glance

Severity
CRITICAL 9.3
EPSS
EPSS 0.25 % · percentile 17 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
ibm
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to impersonate the TNC policy server and modify traffic due to improper certificate validation.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:Nibm
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:NNVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
IBM · AIXaffected 7.2 ; affected 7.3
IBM · PowerVM VIOSaffected 4.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD