CVE-2021-38917 (GCVE-0-2021-38917)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-10 17:50 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:19
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/PR:N/UI:N/I:H/AC:H/C:H/A:N/S:U/RC:C/RL:O/E:U
CWE
  • Bypass Security
Assigner
ibm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor Affected: FW940
Affected: FW950
Affected: FW860
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Date Public
2021-12-09 00:00
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