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High 8.2Published Oct 12, 2026

CVE-2026-96262IBM Power Systems Firmware Buffer Overflow

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It affects IBM PowerVM Hypervisor. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.17%, higher than 6% of scored CVEs.

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 overflow host firmware runtime attribute storage, allowing arbitrary code to be executed in the host firmware runtime. This gives the attacker full access to the managed system's memory and hardware interfaces, resulting in a confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact to the managed system.

CVSS
8.2 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-121
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
0.17% (percentile 6)
Assigned by
ibm
NVD analysis
Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated
Oct 13, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 12, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor
ibm:powervm_hypervisor
from FW1060.00 through FW1060.81
CNA record

References

  • vendor-advisory, patch

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