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-2026-17470
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.4%, top 69% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory enrichment pending alignment with NVD CVSS.
- 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
- 7.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 49(Track)EG Risk 49/100SSVC: 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 computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 31%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 4, 2026
Last Modified
September 9, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Sep 4, 2026Security Bulletin: IBM i is Affected By Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in Line Printer Daemon [CVE-2026-17470, CVE-2026-17469]
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7285939Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-17470(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 23× in last 7d / 78× 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.
- 2026-09-25 01:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-24 14:23 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-09-19 21:55 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-18 12:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 01:23 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-09-17 14:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-09-16 04:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-09-15 05:54 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-09-11 12:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-11 09:36 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-11 01:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-10 14:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-10 14:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-10 09:34 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-10 03:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-09 16:09 UTCEG score recompute▲ 2.20
- 2026-09-09 16:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-09 16:07 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.5 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-09-09 13:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-09 13:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-08 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-08 15:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-08 12:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-08 12:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-07 14:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-06 14:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-06 14:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-05 16:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-05 16:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-04 18:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-04 18:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-04 17:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-04 17:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-04 16:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-04 16:39 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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