Is CVE-2026-19442 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-19442?

CVE-2026-19442 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (8.2).

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CVE-2026-19442

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 has a pointer validation flaw exists in the AIX Virtual SCSI (vSCSI) initiator driver. Successful exploitation may result in denial of service, privilege escalation, or full compromise of the client LPAR kernel.