CVE-2026-16956 (GCVE-0-2026-16956)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-12 17:30 – Updated: 2026-08-12 19:18
VLAI
Title
IBM Db2 Mirror for i is vulnerable to OS command injection []
Summary
IBM Db2 Mirror for i 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands due to improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-12 17:58 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283281 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM Db2 Mirror for i Affected: 7.4
Affected: 7.5
Affected: 7.6
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_mirror_for_i:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_mirror_for_i:7.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_mirror_for_i:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_mirror_for_i:7.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_mirror_for_i:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_mirror_for_i:7.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • 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.

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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.


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