IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1120.00, FW1110.00 through FW1110.30, FW1060.00 through FW1060.80, and FW950.00 through FW950.H2 is affected by a vulnerability in the service processor mailbox interface. An attacker with authenticated service-level access to the FSP can exploit this vulnerability, allowing arbitrary code to be executed in the host firmware runtime, giving full control over the managed system, resulting in a confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact to the managed system.
History

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First Time appeared Ibm powervm Hypervisor
Vendors & Products Ibm powervm Hypervisor

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Description IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1120.00, FW1110.00 through FW1110.30, FW1060.00 through FW1060.80, and FW950.00 through FW950.H2 is affected by a vulnerability in the service processor mailbox interface. An attacker with authenticated service-level access to the FSP can exploit this vulnerability, allowing arbitrary code to be executed in the host firmware runtime, giving full control over the managed system, resulting in a confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact to the managed system.
Title Power System Integer Overflow
First Time appeared Ibm
Ibm power Systems Firmware
Weaknesses CWE-190
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw1060.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw1060.80:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw1110.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw1110.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw1120.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw950.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw950.h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Ibm
Ibm power Systems Firmware
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ibm

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-19T19:35:19.799Z

Reserved: 2026-07-22T19:47:20.654Z

Link: CVE-2026-16661

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-19T20:17:01.937

Modified: 2026-08-19T20:17:01.937

Link: CVE-2026-16661

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-19T22:15:04Z