CVE-2026-16967IBM i is Affected By Multiple SQL Vulnerabilities [, ]
- 8.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.35%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 71% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to system objects due to a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition involving symbolic links.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Undergoing Analysis | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.5.
Affected products
What to do
Solution: IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now. IBM i Release5770-SS1 PTF Number(s)PTF Download Link(s)7.6SJ10871 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ10871 7.5SJ10835 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ10835 7.4SJ10840 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ10840 7.3SJ10841 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ10841 IBM recommends users running unsupported versions of affected products upgrade to a supported and fixed version of affected products.
References
References1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283294 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatch
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-58382 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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