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CVE-2026-17042 (GCVE-0-2026-17042)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-19 19:11 – Updated: 2026-08-19 19:46

Title

Power System Out-of-bounds Read

Summary

IBM Power Systems Firmware FW950.00 through FW950.H2, OP940.00 through OP940.a1 (Power9), and OP940.00 - OP940.81 (Power HMC) is affected by a vulnerability in host firmware NVRAM parsing. An attacker with root access to a guest partition on an OpenPOWER system can write a specially crafted NVRAM image, causing the host firmware boot stage to crash with possible memory corruption. This condition persists until operator intervention — clearing NVRAM via the service processor — to restore normal operation. This vulnerability only affects OpenPOWER systems; systems running PowerVM are not affected. Successful exploitation results in an integrity and availability impact to the managed system.

Severity

7.3 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-19 19:24 UTC

CWE

CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner

ibm mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283240	vendor-advisorypatch

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
IBM	Power Systems Firmware	Affected: FW950.00 , ≤ FW950.H2 (semver) Affected: OP940.00 , ≤ OP940.a1 (semver) Affected: OP940.00 , ≤ OP940.81 (semver) cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw950.00:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw950.h2:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:op940.00:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:op940.a1:::::::*

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FKIE_CVE-2026-17042

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-19 20:17 - Updated: 2026-08-20 13:03

Severity

7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	psirt@us.ibm.com	https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283240

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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  "published": "2026-08-19T20:17:12.127",
  "references": [
    {
      "source": "psirt@us.ibm.com",
      "url": "https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283240"
    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "psirt@us.ibm.com",
  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis",
  "weaknesses": [
    {
      "description": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "CWE-125"
        }
      ],
      "source": "psirt@us.ibm.com",
      "type": "Primary"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-RCV3-HW8M-43FG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-19 21:30 – Updated: 2026-08-19 21:30

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7.3 (High)


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

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-17042"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-125"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-08-19T20:17:12Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "IBM Power Systems Firmware FW950.00 through FW950.H2, OP940.00 through OP940.a1 (Power9), and OP940.00 - OP940.81 (Power HMC) is affected by a vulnerability in host firmware NVRAM parsing. An attacker with root access to a guest partition on an OpenPOWER system can write a specially crafted NVRAM image, causing the host firmware boot stage to crash with possible memory corruption. This condition persists until operator intervention \u2014 clearing NVRAM via the service processor \u2014 to restore normal operation. This vulnerability only affects OpenPOWER systems; systems running PowerVM are not affected. Successful exploitation results in an integrity and availability impact to the managed system.",
  "id": "GHSA-rcv3-hw8m-43fg",
  "modified": "2026-08-19T21:30:35Z",
  "published": "2026-08-19T21:30:35Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17042"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283240"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

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CVE-2026-17042 (GCVE-0-2026-17042)

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