Is CVE-2026-16869 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-16869?

CVE-2026-16869 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.8).

What does CVE-2026-16869 affect?

CVE-2026-16869 affects vios, aix.

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CVE-2026-16869

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Description

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code due to improperly scrubbed environment variables.