CVE-2026-16140 PUBLISHED

OpenBMC IPMI Privilege Escalation via Retargeted RAKP 1

Assigner: runZero
Reserved: 17.07.2026 Published: 15.09.2026 Updated: 15.09.2026

OpenBMC's IPMI implementation, phosphor-net-ipmid, is vulnerable to a logic flaw where the authorization context of an existing session can be replaced with a target account while still maintaining the original integrity and encryption keys. Several downstream vendors implement phosphor-net-ipmid as their IPMI stack, such as NVIDIA and H3C. This issue effectively allows for privilege escalation without re-authentication.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor OpenBMC
Product phosphor-net-ipmid
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to ba6efc502e6b1fabb8ed1ca677ae5eedd64b6361 (incl.)

Credits

  • HD Moore of runZero finder
  • Gadi Evron of Knostic finder
  • Tod Beardsley of runZero coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization CWE