CVE-2026-16849

MEDIUM 4.3

Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS

CVSS Score

4.3

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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 an improper check for an array index boundary.

CWE	CWE-129
Vendor	ibm
Product	aix
Published	Aug 19, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Adjacent

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

Affected Versions

IBM / AIX

7.2 7.3

IBM / PowerVM VIOS

4.1

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

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

Credits

CVE-2026-14970, CVE-2026-15061, CVE-2026-15078, CVE-2026-15065, CVE-2026-15068 were reported to IBM by Oneconsult AG (https://oneconsult.com/).