CVE-2026-18871

Summary

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1120.00, FW1110.00 through FW1110.30, and FW1060.00 through FW1060.80 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.

Affected Software

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121: CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

References