CVE-2026-96261
IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1060.00 through FW1060.81 is affected by a vulnerability in host…
- Risk score
- 44/100
- CVSS
- 7.3 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.1%
- Published
- 12 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- 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 c…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.3 high
References
Original 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 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.
Last activity 12 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.