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 on the same network as a partition undergoing network boot can send a malformed packet, allowing arbitrary code to be executed in the partition firmware and 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.
History

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

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0000

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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 Power Systems Firmware is affected by 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 to be executed in the partition firmware and 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.
Title Power System Out-of-bounds Write
First Time appeared Ibm
Ibm power Systems Firmware
Weaknesses CWE-787
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': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ibm

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-19T19:41:43.179Z

Reserved: 2026-08-04T13:21:06.083Z

Link: CVE-2026-18821

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No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-19T20:17:13.603

Modified: 2026-08-19T20:17:13.603

Link: CVE-2026-18821

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

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Updated: 2026-08-19T23:30:17Z