Security Advisory

CVE-2026-17042

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-19 19:11:07

Last updated 2026-08-19 19:46:38

Assigner ibm

CVSS score 7.3

State PUBLISHED

Description

IBM Power Systems Firmware FW950.00 through FW950.H2, OP940.00 through OP940.a1 (Power9), and OP940.00 - OP940.81 (Power HMC) is affected by a vulnerability in host firmware NVRAM parsing. An attacker with root access to a guest partition on an OpenPOWER system can write a specially crafted NVRAM image, causing the host firmware boot stage to crash with possible memory corruption. This condition persists until operator intervention — clearing NVRAM via the service processor — to restore normal operation. This vulnerability only affects OpenPOWER systems; systems running PowerVM are not affected. Successful exploitation results in an integrity and availability impact to the managed system.

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