CVE•Published 2026-08-19•Modified 2026-08-21•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-16894Ibm · Vios
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
54
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 46% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code due to a stack buffer overflow.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-19
Modified 2026-08-21
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2026-16894Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Ibm Vios"All exposed Ibm Vios instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Vios"HTTP body or banner mentions "Vios" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-16894Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-16894Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-16894Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-16894GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-16894" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (3)
CVE-2026-168943 repos
Threekiii/Awesome-POCJava
一个漏洞 PoC 知识库。A knowledge base for vulnerability PoCs(Proof of Concept), with 1k+ vulnerabilities.
cnlinxi/LLM-paper-dailyPython
Automatically Update LLM Papers Daily using Github Actions. Ref: https://github.com/Vincentqyw/cv-arxiv-daily
cmivqa/ro-arxiv-dailyPython
Automatically Update Arxiv Papers Daily using Github Actions (Update Every 8th hours)