CVE-2026-17422

CriticalCVSS 9.3

Published: 20/08/2026(UTC)Translated: 21/08/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

IBM AIX 7.2, 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code due to a buffer overflow.

Risk of local privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution on the system.

Install security patches from IBM and restrict local access to systems.

Original NVD description (English source)

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.