CVE-2026-102917High· 7.8▾ TwilightIBM i 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 is vulnerable to an authenticated attacker elevating their privilege. A bad actor could exploit this vulnerability to perform operations with QSECOFR/Root authority on the system.
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 42.9 · likelihood 0 · exploitation 0
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Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake. The CVSS score shown above comes from the assigning CNA record, not NVD.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Oct 17.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via CVEORG
0.10%
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.10% → 0.1%
IBM i 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 is vulnerable to an authenticated attacker elevating their privilege. A bad actor could exploit this vulnerability to perform operations with QSECOFR/Root authority on the system.
i 7.6i 7.5i 7.4i 7.3IBM i Release5770-SS1 PTF Number(s)PTF Download Link(s)7.6SJ11832 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ11832 7.5SJ11775 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ11775 7.4SJ11833 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ11833 7.3SJ11841 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ11841
IBM recommends users running unsupported versions of affected products upgrade to a supported and fixed version of affected products.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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