Is CVE-2026-17120 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-17120?

CVE-2026-17120 has a CVSS v3 severity of MEDIUM (5.3).

Back

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to a buffer overflow.