CVE-2026-17118 – IBM AIX

IBM AIX 7.2 and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 are affected by a large set of Critical and High-severity vulnerabilities spanning remote code execution, command injection, authentication bypass, privilege escalation, arbitrary file writes, certificate-validation failures, memory corruption, information disclosure, and denial of service. Several Critical issues carry CVSS scores from 9.1 through 9.9, including remote paths to arbitrary code execution and root privileges. The High-severity issues range from CVSS 7.0 through 8.8 and include additional code execution, privilege escalation, authorization bypass, NFS access, network manipulation, file overwrite, and denial-of-service conditions.

The highest-scoring Critical issues are CVE-2026-15068, CVE-2026-16816, and CVE-2026-18835 at 9.9. CVE-2026-16656, CVE-2026-16834, CVE-2026-16840, CVE-2026-16845, CVE-2026-16862, CVE-2026-16864, CVE-2026-16872, CVE-2026-16882, CVE-2026-16885, CVE-2026-16894, CVE-2026-16913, CVE-2026-16917, CVE-2026-16919, CVE-2026-17040, CVE-2026-17118, CVE-2026-17122, CVE-2026-17136, CVE-2026-17141, CVE-2026-17142, CVE-2026-17145, CVE-2026-17152, CVE-2026-17157, and CVE-2026-17160 each have a CVSS score of 9.8, Critical severity. CVE-2026-16903 is 9.6, CVE-2026-16839 is 9.4, CVE-2026-16822 and CVE-2026-17422 are 9.3, and CVE-2026-15065 and CVE-2026-16926 are 9.1, all Critical severity.

The remaining listed vulnerabilities are High severity, with individual CVSS scores between 7.0 and 8.8. They cover remote and local memory corruption, command execution, privilege escalation, authentication and authorization failures, arbitrary file access, certificate validation weaknesses, and denial-of-service conditions across AIX and PowerVM VIOS components.