VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-19783

CVSS score6.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.16%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-08-20
Last modified2026-10-26
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to cause kernel memory corruption due to insufficient validation. A crafted filesystem image can trigger an out-of-bounds kernel-stack write during directory reads, causing a system crash or potentially enabling privilege escalation.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references