Is CVE-2026-16848 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-16848?

CVE-2026-16848 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (8.8).

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CVE-2026-16848

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands due to improper neutralization of shell metacharacters in DHCP options.