CVE-2026-18871 PUBLISHED

Power System Buffer Overflow

Assigner: ibm
Reserved: 04.08.2026 Published: 19.08.2026 Updated: 19.08.2026

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1120.00, FW1110.00 through FW1110.30, and FW1060.00 through FW1060.80 is affected by a vulnerability in host firmware configuration parsing. An attacker with authenticated service-level access to the service processor can write specially crafted configuration data, causing the host firmware boot stack to crash with possible memory corruption during system initialisation, resulting in an integrity and availability impact to the managed system.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.3

Product Status

Vendor IBM
Product PowerVM Hypervisor
Versions
  • Version FW1120.00 is affected
  • affected from FW1110.00 to FW1110.30 (incl.)
  • affected from FW1060.00 to FW1060.80 (incl.)

Solutions

Customers with the products below should install FW1110.31(1110_134), FW1120.01(1120_167), or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 11

  • IBM Power System E1180 (9080-HEU)

Customers with the products below should install FW1110.31(1110_155), FW1120.01(1120_190), 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 FW1120.01(1120_190), or newer to remediate this vulnerability.

Power 11

  • IBM Power System S1112 (9242-21B, 9242-21T)

Customers with the products below should install FW1060.81(1060_184), or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 10

  • IBM Power System E1080 (9080-HEX)

Customers with the products below should install  FW1060.81(1060_191), 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)

The images mentioned above can be located at IBM Fix Central : https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE