IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to a buffer overflow.
CVE-2026-17272
Score 8.2 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-13. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.7.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 8.2(high)
- EG Risk
- 52(Track)EG Risk 52/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity82% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 27%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 13, 2026
Last Modified
August 19, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Aug 13, 2026Security Bulletin: IBM i is Affected By a Denial of Service in HTTP Server [CVE-2026-17272]
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283295Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-17272(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 34× in last 7d / 37× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 17:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 04:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-20 04:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 16:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 16:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 16:44 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.5
- 2026-08-19 09:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 20:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 20:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 08:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 20:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-17 20:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-17 08:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 20:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 20:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 08:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 08:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 19:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-15 07:46 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-08-15 07:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-14 19:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-14 19:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-14 19:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-14 18:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-14 18:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-14 09:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-14 09:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 21:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 20:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 20:36 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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