CVE-2026-4937 (GCVE-0-2026-4937)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-19 20:11
Modified
2026-08-20 15:20
CWE
Summary
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1110.00 through FW1110.20, FW1060.00 through FW1060.71, and FW950.00 through FW950.H2 could allow a local attacker with administrative privileges to decrypt encrypted data due to certain hypervisor calls utilizing less entropy than requested.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor Version: FW1110.00    FW1110.20
Version: FW1060.00    FW1060.71
Version: FW950.00    FW950.H2
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw1110.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw1110.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw1060.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw1060.71:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw950.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power_systems_firmware:fw950.h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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