CVE•Published 2026-08-13•Modified 2026-08-17•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-18509Ibm · I
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.2
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
10
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 90% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain privilege escalation via the Navigator for i debugger. This could allow the attacker to access or manipulate sensitive data on the system, or create new profiles with elevated privileges on the IBM i system.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-13
Modified 2026-08-17
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-2026-18509Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product + version
product:"Ibm I" version:"7.3"Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"I"HTTP body or banner mentions "I" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-18509Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-18509Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-18509Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-18509GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-18509" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (3)
CVE-2026-185093 repos
Xuchen-Li/cv-arxiv-dailyPython
Automatically update arXiv papers about SOT & VLT, Multi-modal Learning, LLM and Video Understanding using Github Actions.
XuzhaoLi/ro-arxiv-dailyPython
Automatically Update Arxiv Papers about Path Planning, LLM and Autonomous Driving using Github Actions since 2024.2.
cnlinxi/LLM-paper-dailyPython
Automatically Update LLM Papers Daily using Github Actions. Ref: https://github.com/Vincentqyw/cv-arxiv-daily