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CVE-2026-96261: PowerVM Hypervisor FW1060.00 through FW1060.81

CVE-2026-96261. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.3 (HIGH, Vendor/CNA).

Affected technology

PowerVM Hypervisor · FW1060.00 through FW1060.81
IBM

Description’s affected range: through FW1060.81 is affected by a vulnerability in host firmware configuration parsing

Component: Not specified by the source

Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 3.1): Local · Low privileges required · No user interaction required

What an attacker can do

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. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 7.3/10) rates confidentiality impact as none; integrity impact as low; availability impact as high.

Published 13-Oct-2026 01:49 UTC

CWE: CWE-121
CCR priority: 29.2 /100 (P4)
CVSS 3.1: 7.3 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H · Vendor/CNA
KEV: no

Provenance

GitHub Advisory Database · Source record · observed 2026-10-13 02:51:46.931182+00:00 UTC
NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-13 01:49:08.152775+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-96261.html