Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-7870

High

Published: 11 June 2026

Published
11 June 2026
Modified
17 June 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0034 26.2th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-7870 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Ibm I. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Path Interception by Search Order Hijacking (T1574.008); ranked at the 26.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A08:2025 Software or Data Integrity Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a user to gain elevated privileges due to an unqualified library call. A malicious actor could cause user-controlled code to run with administrator privilege.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1574.008 Path Interception by Search Order Hijacking Stealth
Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the search order used to load other programs.
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Why these techniques?

Unqualified library call (CWE-427) directly enables search-order hijacking to load attacker-controlled code with elevated privileges.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

Affected Assets

ibm
i
7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References