CVE-2026-16829

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 46/100
Published: 2026-08-19 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Adjacent No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Adjacent
AC: High
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereference.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
ibm aix 7.2.5 – 7.2.5.212
ibm vios 4.1.0 – 4.1.0.50

References & Advisories (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

46 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.25%
Raw Score 0.002500
Percentile 16.4%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00250
2026-10-28
0.00250

Intelligence Sources

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