CVE-2026-16707

Summary

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 service processor mailbox interface. An attacker with authenticated service-level access to the FSP can send a specially crafted mailbox message to read or modify arbitrary regions of Hostboot memory, compromising the host firmware boot stack and the hypervisor subsequently loaded by it. Successful exploitation results in a confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact to the managed system.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
IBMPowerVM HypervisorFW1120.00affected
IBMPowerVM HypervisorFW1110.00 <= FW1110.30affected
IBMPowerVM HypervisorFW1060.00 <= FW1060.80affected
IBMPowerVM HypervisorFW950.00 <= FW950.H2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-125: CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

References