CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-96266

HighCVSS 8.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1060.00 through FW1060.81 has a vulnerability in host firmware configuration parsing, allowing an attacker with service access to FSP to cause memory corruption during IPL, compromising boot stack and hypervisor.

Risk Assessment

Successful exploitation can lead to full compromise of the managed system, impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Recommendation

Apply IBM firmware patches and restrict service access to FSP.

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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 FSP can write specially crafted configuration data to cause memory corruption in the host firmware boot stage during system IPL, compromising the host firmware boot stack and the hypervisor subsequently loaded by it. Successful exploitation results in a confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact to the managed system.

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