IBMCVE-2026-18871
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor: memory corruption
High7.3CVE-2026-18871 · Published Aug 19, 2026 · updated Aug 25, 2026
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 versions
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| PowerVM Hypervisor Product | <= FW1120.00 | No fix yet |
| >= FW1110.00, <= FW1110.30 | No fix yet | |
| >= FW1060.00, <= FW1060.80 | No fix yet |
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-121
More IBM advisories
All IBM| Date | Advisory | Severity | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19 | IBM DS8900F (R9.4): information disclosure | High7.4 | No fix yet |
| Aug 19 | IBM DS8900F: authenticated user could create a user with privileged user | High7.5 | No fix yet |
| Aug 19 | IBM DS8900F (R9.4): authenticated user could read or modify another user's | Medium5.4 | No fix yet |
| Aug 19 | IBM PowerVM Hypervisor Platform KeyStore | Medium5.1 | No fix yet |
| Aug 19 | IBM PowerVM Hypervisor: local attacker could decrypt encrypted data | Medium5.3 | No fix yet |
| Aug 19 | IBM go-slug: local attacker could bypass | Medium5.5 | No fix yet |