CVE-2021-38917

CriticalCVSS 9.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW860, FW940, and FW950 could allow an attacker that gains service access to the FSP can read and write arbitrary host system memory through a series of carefully crafted service procedures. IBM X-Force ID: 210018.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
IBMPowerVM HypervisorFW940; FW950; FW860

References

Timeline

Published
Dec 10, 2021
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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