[ CVE-2026-96261 · Published 12 Oct 2026 ]
Vulnerability in IBM PowerVM Hypervisor
CVSS 7.3
EPSS <1%No fix listed yet
[ Description ]Official description
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.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.