Is CVE-2026-16926 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-16926?

CVE-2026-16926 has a CVSS v3 severity of CRITICAL (9.1).

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CVE-2026-16926

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files due to improper neutralization of special elements in input.