CVE-2026-16936
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
At a glance
- Severity
- HIGH 8.8
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 (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 local attacker to execute arbitrary code due to a buffer overflow.
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) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
European references
CERT-FR advisories
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 ≤ 7.3.4.1
Affected products
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