CVE-2021-38917 is a critical vulnerability affecting IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW860, FW940, and FW950. An attacker with service access to the FSP can exploit this flaw to read and write arbitrary host system memory through crafted service procedures. With a CVSS score of 9.1, this vulnerability poses a significant risk due to its network attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
fw860CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw860:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
fw940CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw940:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
fw950CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw950:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.