Security Advisory

CVE-2026-16838

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-19 19:30:41
Last updated 2026-08-22 03:55:54
Assigner ibm
CVSS score 7.0
State PUBLISHED

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to overwrite critical files and obtain sensitive information due to a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition.