CVE-2026-16838
High · 7.0CVSS
7.0
EPSS
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Published
Aug 19, 2026
CISA due date
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The record
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to overwrite critical files and obtain sensitive information due to a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition.
Affected packages
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