VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-17063

high
Assigned by CNA: ibm
Published 2026-08-19 · Modified 2026-08-19
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CVSS v3
7.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.9

Description

IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1120.00, FW1110.00 through FW1110.30, and FW1060.00 through FW1060.80 is affected by a vulnerability in the interface between the BMC/FSP and the host system. An attacker with service account or root access to the BMC/FSP can access and disrupt host processor state, potentially affecting the managed system and all hosted partitions, resulting in an confidentiality, and availability impact.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
76%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-863

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.