MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-96265 (CVSS 8.2)
NVD · officialPublished Oct 12, 2026Risk 37/100
IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1060.00 through FW1060.81 is affected by a vulnerability in the service processor mailbox interface. An attacker with authenticated service-level access to the FSP can send a specially crafted mailbox message to read or modify arbitrary regions of Hostboot memory, compromising the host firmware boot stack and the hypervisor subsequently loaded by it. Successful exploitation results in a confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact to the managed system.
Technical details
CVSS
8.2
AV:LocalAC:LowPR:HighUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High
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