IBM i is Affected By An Improper Authentication Vulnerability in Network Authentication Service [] (IBM i)

CVE-2026-16892
MEDIUM 5.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.36 % Β· percentile 29 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
ibm
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions due to improper authentication during service-name matching.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-287 β€” Improper Authentication

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nibm
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NNVD Β· psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
IBM Β· iaffected 7.6 ; affected 7.5 ; affected 7.4 ; affected 7.3

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST β€” attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA β€” reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain β€” this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD