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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.2 High

CVE-2026-96265

IBM Power Systems Firmware Improper Memory Buffer Restriction

Description

IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1060.00 through FW1060.81 is affected by a vulnerability in the service processor mailbox interface. An attacker with authenticated service-level access to the FSP can send a specially crafted mailbox message to read or modify arbitrary regions of Hostboot memory, 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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor

  • FW1060.00 to ≤ FW1060.81affected

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