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CVE-2026-96266 Details

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 FSP can write specially crafted configuration data to cause memory corruption in the host firmware boot stage during system IPL, 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.2 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7290128 [email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-121Stack-based Buffer Overflow[email protected]

Affected Products

No affected product data is available for this CVE.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-96266
NVD Published Date:
Oct 12, 2026
NVD Last Modified:
Oct 13, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2026-96266 Details - Not Deferred