High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 19, 2026
CVE-2026-16874
CVE-2026-16874
Description
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to obtain root privileges due to improper enforcement of RBAC authentication roles.
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