CVE-2026-16961: IBM I

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM i 7.6, 7.5, and 7.4 s vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially crafted SQL statements, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify, or delete information in the back-end database.

Affected products

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

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