CVE-2026-18343
IBM i is Affected By An Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability
02 Description
IBM i is Affected By An Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
- Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.08% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 0.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 4.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-14.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-10-12 23:22Z16 DAYS AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-10-13 13:48Z15 DAYS AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-07-29
- Assigning CNA
- ibm
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 4.4)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269Improper Privilege ManagementClass
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 96524c138b0eab0a0d14fc5c28ccaac014d92d830cdd5423ae8033ca28824af3
05 Affected products
06 References
07 Remediation
IBM i Release5770-SS1 PTF Number(s)PTF Download Link(s)7.6SJ11460 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ11460 7.5SJ11461 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ11461 7.4SJ11462 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ11462 7.3SJ11463 https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/fix-information?legacy=SJ11463 IBM recommends users running unsupported versions of affected products upgrade to a supported and fixed version of affected products.