- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.24%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 85% 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 s vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack due to uncontrolled recursion in the Integrated Language Environment (ILE) compiler. An authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by compiling specially crafted source code containing a specific combination of statements.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 34 days later
· 34 days later
Published
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 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
What to do
Solution: IBM i Release5770-999 PTF Number(s)PTF Download Link(s)7.6MJ09365 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=MJ09365 7.5MJ09335 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=MJ09335 7.4MJ09334 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=MJ09334 7.3MJ09332 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=MJ09332 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/7272908 (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-2026-32491 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-6936)Record last updated .