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CVE-2025-0986

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor data manipulation

MEDIUM
4.4
CVSS Score
Published: March 28, 2025 at 01:21 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:27 AM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorPowerVM HypervisorPOWER9 System Firmware

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Severity
MEDIUM4.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1050.00 through FW1050.30 and FW1060.00 through FW1060.20 could allow a local user, under certain Linux processor combability mode configurations, to cause undetected data loss or errors when performing gzip compression using HW acceleration.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

POWER9 System Firmware· IBM
95%
fw1050.00fw1050.30fw1060.00fw1060.20
PowerVM Hypervisor· IBM
95%
FW1050.00 ≤ v ≤ FW1050.30FW1060.00 ≤ v ≤ FW1060.20fw1050.00 ≤ v ≤ fw1050.30fw1060.00 ≤ v ≤ fw1060.20FW1050.00FW1060.00

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

Vendor AdvisoryPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7229349

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

4.4MEDIUM[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
LOW
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-409NVD-CWE-noinfo

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