CVE-2026-84414 (GCVE-0-2026-84414)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-29 18:00 – Updated: 2026-09-30 03:56
VLAI
Title
IBM i is Affected By An Incorrect Permission Assignment Vulnerability in Network Authentication Service []
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-29 00:00 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7289443 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM i Affected: 7.6 (custom)
Affected: 7.5 (custom)
Affected: 7.4 (custom)
Affected: 7.3 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.