CVE-2026-16997

HIGH

MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 41/100

Published: 2026-08-20 Modified: 2026-10-27 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Low Complexity No Auth Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

AV: Local

AC: Low

PR: None

UI: Required

S: Unchanged

C: High

I: High

A: High

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 privilege management.

CWE-269

Vendor	Product	Version
ibm	aix	7.2.5 – 7.2.5.212
ibm	vios	4.1.0 – 4.1.0.50

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283858

Patch Vendor Advisory

41 / 100

✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity

7.8 / 10.0 v3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

0.18%

Raw Score 0.001750

Percentile 7.0%

Date 2026-10-29

2026-10-29

0.00175

2026-10-28

0.00175

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