CVE-2026-17091
What it is
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1120.00, FW1110.00 through FW1110.30, FW1060.00 through FW1060.80, and FW950.00 through FW950.H2 is affected by a vulnerability in the PowerVM hypervisor call interface. An attacker with root access to a guest partition can issue a specially crafted hypervisor call to inject an arbitrary amount of data into hypervisor or partition memory, resulting in either a crash causing a full platform re-IPL and terminating all hosted partitions, or corruption of hypervisor or partition memory. The PowerVM hypervisor will restart automatically; however, repeated exploitation could result in a sustained availability impact. Successful exploitation results in an integrity and availability impact to the managed system.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited locally on the machine with a low-privilege account. High risk of data tampering, service disruption.
- Exploit odds
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.1% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 8.4 HIGH (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.1% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-190 · Integer overflow
- Record status
- Analyzed
Affected
- IBM Power System s1122 \(9824-22a\) Firmware < fw1110.31
- IBM Power System s1122 \(9824-22a\) Firmware fw1120.00
- IBM Power System s1124 \(9824-42a\) Firmware < fw1110.31
- IBM Power System s1124 \(9824-42a\) Firmware fw1120.00
- IBM Power System s1122s \(9824-22b\) Firmware < fw1110.31
- IBM Power System s1122s \(9824-22b\) Firmware fw1120.00
- IBM Power System s1114 \(9824-41b\) Firmware < fw1110.31
- IBM Power System s1114 \(9824-41b\) Firmware fw1120.00
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 8.4
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
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