CVE-2026-16923
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in IBM products. Some of them allow an attacker to cause remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation and remote denial of service.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM products allow remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, and denial of service.
- Who is affected
- IBM product deployments across multiple product lines.
- Urgency
- Critical: exploitation is already occurring in the wild.
- Action
- Review IBM security advisories for affected products, identify which are deployed, and apply patches immediately for any actively exploited CVEs.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.11% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 2% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (2)
- unknownexploitedMultiple vulnerabilities in IBM products (August 21, 2026)cert-fr-avis · 2026-08-21
- highCVE-2026-16923: IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated pr…nvd · 2026-08-20
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