CVE-2026-17040
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code due to a buffer overflow.
Scoring
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS base score
- 9.8
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.46%
- CWE
- CWE-120
- Published
- 2026-08-20
- Last modified
- 2026-08-25
Affected products
- IBM AIX
- IBM AIX
- IBM PowerVM VIOS
Weakness type
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