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CVE-2023-30438 — An internally discovered vulnerability in PowerVM on IBM Power9 and Power10 syst

An internally discovered vulnerability in PowerVM on IBM Power9 and Power10 systems could allow an attacker with privileged user access to a logical partition to perform an undetected violation of the isolation between logical partitions which could lead to data leakage or the ex

CVSS
9.3 CRITICAL
EPSS
0.04% (top 88.20%)
CWE
—
Published
2023-05-17T12:48:37.240Z
Last modified
2025-01-22T16:48:02.322Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

An internally discovered vulnerability in PowerVM on IBM Power9 and Power10 systems could allow an attacker with privileged user access to a logical partition to perform an undetected violation of the isolation between logical partitions which could lead to data leakage or the execution of arbitrary code in other logical partitions on the same physical server. IBM X-Force ID: 252706.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
IBMPowerVM HypervisorFW950.00, FW1010.00, FW1020.00, FW1030.00

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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