CVE-2026-18821

Summary

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1120.00, FW1110.00 through FW1110.30, FW1060.00 through FW1060.80, and FW950.00 through FW950.H2 Power Systems Firmware is affected by a vulnerability in partition firmware during network boot. An unauthenticated attacker on the same network as a partition undergoing network boot can send a malformed packet, allowing arbitrary code to be executed in the partition firmware and compromising everything subsequently loaded by that partition. Other partitions and the managed system are not affected. Only partitions actively performing a network boot are affected, resulting in a confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.

Affected Software

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-787: CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References