High severity8.2NVD Advisory· Published Oct 12, 2026
CVE-2026-96265
CVE-2026-96265
Description
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.
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Affected products
1- Range: FW1060.00 through FW1060.81
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