CVE-2026-96261
IBM Power Systems Firmware Buffer Overflow
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.3 High
- Published
- Oct 12, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 12, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 22, 2026
Description
IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1060.00 through FW1060.81 is affected by a vulnerability in host firmware configuration parsing. An attacker with authenticated service-level access to the service processor can write specially crafted configuration data, causing the host firmware boot stack to crash with possible memory corruption during system initialisation, resulting in an integrity and availability impact to the managed system.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.3 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H | ibm |
Weaknesses
- CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
PowerVM HypervisorIBM |
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References
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7290127vendor-advisorypatch
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