CVE-2026-17414
HighCVSS 8.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs
Summary
IBM Power Systems Firmware in specific versions has a vulnerability in partition firmware during network boot. An unauthenticated attacker on the same network as a partition performing a network boot can prevent that partition from completing its boot sequence, and if secure boot is not enabled, can substitute the boot image, compromising everything subsequently loaded.
Risk Assessment
The risk includes confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact to the partition performing network boot, but does not affect other partitions or the managed system.
Recommendation
Apply available firmware updates from IBM for affected versions.
Other vulnerabilities in IBM Power Systems Firmware
See all- CVE-2026-16835Critical
IBM Power Systems Firmware (FW1120.00, FW1110.00 through FW1110.30, FW1060.00 through FW1060.80, FW950.00 through FW950.H2) is affected by a vulnerability in the FSP management network protocol. An unauthenticated attacker on the management network can bypass authentication and perform any administrative operation on the managed system, including control of partition power state, configuration, and console access across all hosted partitions, resulting in confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.
- CVE-2026-16687Critical
IBM Power Systems Firmware (FW1120.00, FW1110.00 through FW1110.30, FW1060.00 through FW1060.80, FW950.00 through FW950.H2) is affected by a vulnerability in the ASMI web interface. An unauthenticated attacker with network access can send the FSP a malformed request, allowing arbitrary code execution, giving the attacker full control over the managed system, resulting in confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.
- CVE-2026-18821High
IBM Power Systems Firmware in specific versions has 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 execution in the partition firmware and compromising everything subsequently loaded by that partition.
- CVE-2026-17063High
IBM Power Systems Firmware in specific versions has a vulnerability in the interface between the BMC/FSP and the host system. An attacker with service account or root access to the BMC/FSP can access and disrupt host processor state, potentially affecting the managed system and all hosted partitions.
- CVE-2026-17042High
IBM Power Systems Firmware in specific versions has a vulnerability in host firmware NVRAM parsing. An attacker with root access to a guest partition on an OpenPOWER system can write a specially crafted NVRAM image, causing the host firmware boot stage to crash with possible memory corruption, requiring operator intervention to restore normal operation.
- CVE-2026-16933High
IBM Power Systems Firmware in specific versions has a vulnerability in the interface between the BMC/FSP and the host system. An attacker with service account or root access to the BMC/FSP can read and write arbitrary regions of host system memory, giving full control over the host system and all hosted partitions.
- CVE-2026-18848High
IBM Power Systems Firmware (FW1120.00, FW1110.00-FW1110.30, FW1060.00-FW1060.80, FW950.00-FW950.H2) is affected by a vulnerability in the ASMI web interface. An attacker who can lure a logged-in ASMI administrator to visit a crafted web page can, under specific conditions, silently perform administrative actions on the FSP on behalf of that administrator.
- CVE-2026-17494High
IBM Power Systems Firmware is affected by a vulnerability in the interface between the BMC and the host system. An attacker with service access to the BMC can send a specially crafted command, allowing arbitrary code execution on the host system, giving full control over the host and all hosted partitions.
- CVE-2026-17429High
IBM Power Systems Firmware is affected by a vulnerability in the interface between the BMC/FSP and the host system. An attacker with service account or root access to the BMC/FSP can write arbitrary data to hardware control registers, allowing full control over the host system and all hosted partitions.
- CVE-2026-17100High
Power Systems Firmware is affected by a vulnerability in the service processor mailbox interface. An attacker with authenticated service-level access to the BMC/FSP can exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the host firmware runtime, giving full control over the managed system.
Original NVD description (English source)
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 with access to the same network as a partition performing a network boot can prevent that partition from completing its boot sequence. On partitions where OS secure boot is not enabled, which is the default configuration, the attacker can also substitute the boot image, 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.
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