Is CVE-2026-17424 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-17424?

CVE-2026-17424 has a CVSS v3 severity of MEDIUM (4.8).

Back

CVE-2026-17424

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions due to improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory.