CVE-2026-96261: IBM Powervm Hypervisor

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 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.

Affected products

• IBM Powervm Hypervisor

Published 2026-10-12. Last modified 2026-10-13.