IBM PowerVM up to FW950.H1/FW1060.71/FW1110.20 privileges management

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A vulnerability classified as very critical was found in IBM PowerVM up to FW950.H1/FW1060.71/FW1110.20. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-11885. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in IBM PowerVM up to FW950.H1/FW1060.71/FW1110.20. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1110.00 through FW1110.20, FW1060.00 through FW1060.71, and FW950.00 through FW950.H1 A carefully crafted OS hypervisor call can cause the PowerVM hypervisor to crash or compromise OS memory integrity.

The advisory is shared for download at ibm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-11885 since 06/10/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 07/30/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-51238). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• IBM

Name

• PowerVM

Version

• FW950.H1
• FW1060.0
• FW1060.1
• FW1060.2
• FW1060.3
• FW1060.4
• FW1060.5
• FW1060.6
• FW1060.7
• FW1060.8
• FW1060.9
• FW1060.10
• FW1060.11
• FW1060.12
• FW1060.13
• FW1060.14
• FW1060.15
• FW1060.16
• FW1060.17
• FW1060.18
• FW1060.19
• FW1060.20
• FW1060.21
• FW1060.22
• FW1060.23
• FW1060.24
• FW1060.25
• FW1060.26
• FW1060.27
• FW1060.28
• FW1060.29
• FW1060.30
• FW1060.31
• FW1060.32
• FW1060.33
• FW1060.34
• FW1060.35
• FW1060.36
• FW1060.37
• FW1060.38
• FW1060.39
• FW1060.40
• FW1060.41
• FW1060.42
• FW1060.43
• FW1060.44
• FW1060.45
• FW1060.46
• FW1060.47
• FW1060.48
• FW1060.49
• FW1060.50
• FW1060.51
• FW1060.52
• FW1060.53
• FW1060.54
• FW1060.55
• FW1060.56
• FW1060.57
• FW1060.58
• FW1060.59
• FW1060.60
• FW1060.61
• FW1060.62
• FW1060.63
• FW1060.64
• FW1060.65
• FW1060.66
• FW1060.67
• FW1060.68
• FW1060.69
• FW1060.70
• FW1060.71
• FW1110.0
• FW1110.1
• FW1110.2
• FW1110.3
• FW1110.4
• FW1110.5
• FW1110.6
• FW1110.7
• FW1110.8
• FW1110.9
• FW1110.10
• FW1110.11
• FW1110.12
• FW1110.13
• FW1110.14
• FW1110.15
• FW1110.16
• FW1110.17
• FW1110.18
• FW1110.19
• FW1110.20

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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