CVE-2026-16898: IBM I

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a local authenticated attacker to change the ownership of arbitrary files due to improper validation of an attacker-controlled file path.

Affected products

• IBM I: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only

Published 2026-08-13. Last modified 2026-08-17.