High severity · published Aug 19, 2026
CVE-2026-17091
Power System Integer Overflow
8.4
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1120.00, FW1110.00 through FW1110.30, FW1060.00 through FW1060.80, and FW950.00 through FW950.H2 is affected by a vulnerability in the PowerVM hypervisor call interface. An attacker with root access to a guest partition can issue a specially crafted hypervisor call to inject an arbitrary amount of data into hypervisor or partition memory, resulting in either a crash causing a full platform re-IPL and terminating all hosted partitions, or corruption of hypervisor or partition memory. The PowerVM hypervisor will restart automatically; however, repeated exploitation could result in a sustained availability impact. Successful exploitation results in an integrity and availability impact to the managed system.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 4% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PH
PowerVM Hypervisor · IBM
FW1120.00; FW1110.00 through FW1110.30; FW1060.00 through FW1060.80; FW950.00 through FW950.H2 · source: vendor
PS
Power System E1050 (9043-mrx) Firmware · Ibm
fw1060.00 before fw1060.81 · source: NVD
PS
Power System E1080 (9080-hex) Firmware · Ibm
fw1060.00 before fw1060.81 · source: NVD
PS
Power System E1150 (9043-mru) Firmware · Ibm
fw1110.00 before fw1110.31; fw1120.00 · source: NVD
PS
Power System E1180 (9080-heu) Firmware · Ibm
fw1110.00 before fw1110.31; fw1120.00 · source: NVD
PS
Power System E950 (9040-mr9) Firmware · Ibm
fw950.00 before fw950.h3 · source: NVD
PS
Power System E980 (9080-m9s) Firmware · Ibm
fw950.00 before fw950.h3 · source: NVD
PS
Power System H922 (9223-22s) Firmware · Ibm
fw950.00 before fw950.h3 · source: NVD
PS
Power System H924 (9223-42s) Firmware · Ibm
fw950.00 before fw950.h3 · source: NVD
PS
Power System L1022 (9786-22h) Firmware · Ibm
fw1060.00 before fw1060.81 · source: NVD
PS
Power System L1024 (9786-42h) Firmware · Ibm
fw1060.00 before fw1060.81 · source: NVD
PS
Power System L1122 (9856-22h) Firmware · Ibm
fw1110.00 before fw1110.31; fw1120.00 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17091
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-17091
Vendor Advisory
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283229
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