CVE-2026-16932
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
At a glance Severity HIGH 8.8 EPSS EPSS 0.19 % · percentile 9 (2026-10-27) State PUBLISHED Published 2026-08-20 Updated 2026-08-21 Assigner ibm NVD status Analyzed Description IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary commands due to improper validation of the ODMDIR environment variable.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 3.1 HIGH 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H ibm CVSS 3.1 HIGH 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
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Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:a:ibm:vios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.1.0 < 4.1.0.50cpe:2.3:a:ibm:vios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.1.1.0 < 4.1.1.30cpe:2.3:a:ibm:vios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.1.2.0 < 4.1.2.20cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.2.5 ≤ 7.2.5.212cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.3.2 ≤ 7.3.2.5cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.3.3 ≤ 7.3.3.2cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.3.4 ≤ 7.3.4.1Affected products
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