CVE-2023-30438 is an internally discovered vulnerability affecting PowerVM on IBM Power9 and Power10 systems. An attacker with privileged access to a logical partition could exploit this to bypass isolation, potentially leading to data leakage or arbitrary code execution in other logical partitions on the same physical server. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring low privileges, and resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no public exploit intelligence, active exploitation, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= fw950, < fw950.71CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= fw1010.00, < fw1010.51CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= fw1030.00, < fw1030.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= fw1020.00, < fw1020.31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.