IBM PowerVM Hypervisor denial of service
CVE-2023-30440

6.7MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

IBM
Status
Powervm Hypervisor
Vendor
CVE Published:
23 May 2023

What is CVE-2023-30440?

The vulnerability in IBM PowerVM Hypervisor allows a local attacker with control of a partition assigned a SRIOV virtual function to disrupt services in a peer partition, which can lead to denial of service or arbitrary data corruption. This could have significant implications for the integrity and availability of virtualized environments.

Affected Version(s)

PowerVM Hypervisor FW860.00

PowerVM Hypervisor FW950.00

PowerVM Hypervisor FW1010.00

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6997133
vendor-advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253175
vdb-entry

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.7
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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