CVE-2026-17042

IBM Power Systems Firmware FW950.00 through FW950.H2, OP940.00 through OP940.a1 (Power9), and OP940.00 - OP940.81 (Power HMC) is affected by a vulnerability in host firmware NVRAM parsing. An attacker with root access to a guest partition on an OpenPOWER system can write a specially crafted NVRAM image, causing the host firmware boot stage to crash with possible memory corruption. This condition persists until operator intervention — clearing NVRAM via the service processor — to restore normal operation. This vulnerability only affects OpenPOWER systems; systems running PowerVM are not affected. Successful exploitation results in an integrity and availability impact to the managed system.

• ibm power system s922 \(9009-22g\) firmware (>= fw950.00 < fw950.h3) • ibm power system h922 \(9223-22s\) firmware (>= fw950.00 < fw950.h3) • ibm power system s914 \(9009-41g\) firmware (>= fw950.00 < fw950.h3) • ibm power system s924 \(9009-42g\) firmware (>= fw950.00 < fw950.h3) • ibm power system h924 \(9223-42s\) firmware (>= fw950.00 < fw950.h3) • ibm power system e950 \(9040-mr9\) firmware (>= fw950.00 < fw950.h3) • ibm power system e980 \(9080-m9s\) firmware (>= fw950.00 < fw950.h3) • ibm power system ac922 \(8335-gth\) firmware (>= op940 < op940.a2) • ibm power system ac922 \(8335-gtx\) firmware (>= op940 < op940.a2) • ibm power hardware management console \(7063-cr2\) firmware (>= op940 < op940.82)