CVE•Published 2026-08-12•Modified 2026-08-17•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-18683Ibm · I
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
53
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 47% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 is vulnerable to privilege escalation via Navigator for i. An authenticated user could elevate privileges to a root user to execute commands.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-12
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-2026-18683Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · OS
os:"I"Hosts Shodan identified as running I.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-18683Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-18683Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-18683Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-18683GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-18683" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (3)
CVE-2026-186833 repos
xairy/linux-kernel-exploitationunknown
A collection of links related to Linux kernel security and exploitation
XuzhaoLi/ro-arxiv-dailyPython
Automatically Update Arxiv Papers about Path Planning, LLM and Autonomous Driving using Github Actions since 2024.2.
yingyingxia666/awesome-agenticunknown
A curated reading list of large-language-model RL papers, organized by four research directions: Reasoning RL, Agentic RL, OPD (Off-Policy / On-Policy Distillation / Drift), and Mu…