CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-96261

HighCVSS 7.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1060.00 through FW1060.81 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.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to system crashes and memory corruption during initialization, potentially disrupting critical systems based on IBM Power Systems and compromising their integrity.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update IBM Power Systems firmware to the latest available version containing the fix and to restrict service processor access to trusted administrators only.

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Original NVD description (English source)

IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1060.00 through FW1060.81 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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS