Description
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1120.00 through FW1120.01, FW1110.00 through FW1110.31, FW1060.00 through FW1060.81, and FW950.00 through FW950.H3 is affected by a vulnerability in the partition firmware runtime. An attacker with root access to a partition can send a specially crafted request to the partition firmware runtime, causing it to crash with possible memory corruption.
Published: 2026-09-24
Score: 5.1 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Solution

Customers with the products below should install FW1110.32(1110_138), FW1120.02(1120_171), or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 11 * IBM Power System E1180 (9080-HEU) Customers with the products below should install FW1110.32(1110_160), FW1120.02(1120_195), or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 11 * IBM Power System S1122 (9824-22A) * IBM Power System S1124 (9824-42A) * IBM Power System S1122s (9824-22B) * IBM Power System S1114 (9824-41B) * IBM Power System L1122 (9856-22H) * IBM Power System L1124 (9856-42H) * IBM Power System E1150 (9043-MRU) Customers with the products below should install FW1120.02(1120_195), or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 11 * IBM Power System S1112 (9242-21B, 9242-21T) Customers with the products below should install FW1060.82(1060_189), or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 10 * IBM Power System E1080 (9080-HEX) Customers with the products below should install  FW1060.82(1060_199), or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 10 * IBM Power System S1022 (9105-22A) * IBM Power System S1024 (9105-42A) * IBM Power System S1022s (9105-22B) * IBM Power System S1014 (9105-41B) * IBM Power System L1022 (9786-22H) * IBM Power System L1024 (9786-42H) * IBM Power System E1050 (9043-MRX) * IBM Power System S1012 (9028-21B) Customers with the products below should install FW950.H4(950_236) or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 9 * IBM Power System S922 (9009-22G) * IBM Power System H922 (9223-22S) * IBM Power System S914 (9009-41G) * IBM Power System S924 (9009-42G) * IBM Power System H924 (9223-42S) * IBM Power System E950 (9040-MR9) * IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S) The images mentioned above can be located at IBM Fix Central : https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

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History

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:15:00 +0000

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Description IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1120.00 through FW1120.01, FW1110.00 through FW1110.31, FW1060.00 through FW1060.81, and FW950.00 through FW950.H3 is affected by a vulnerability in the partition firmware runtime. An attacker with root access to a partition can send a specially crafted request to the partition firmware runtime, causing it to crash with possible memory corruption.
Title This Power System update is being released to address
First Time appeared Ibm
Ibm powervm Hypervisor
Weaknesses CWE-191
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1060.00.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1060.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1060.81.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1060.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1110.00.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1110.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1110.31.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1110.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1120.00.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1120.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1120.01.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1120.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw950.00.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw950.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw950.h3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw950.h3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Ibm
Ibm powervm Hypervisor
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H'}

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Ibm Powervm Hypervisor
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ibm

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-24T14:31:41.326Z

Reserved: 2026-07-26T19:28:06.549Z

Link: CVE-2026-17504

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-24T14:17:12.230

Modified: 2026-09-24T15:17:19.870

Link: CVE-2026-17504

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