CVE-2023-30440 describes a denial of service and data corruption vulnerability affecting specific versions of IBM PowerVM Hypervisor firmware (FW860.00-B3, FW950.00-70, FW1010.00-50, FW1020.00-30, and FW1030.00-10). A local attacker with control over a partition assigned an SRIOV virtual function (VF) can exploit this to impact a peer partition. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.9 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, no user interaction required, and potential for partial integrity and high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= fw860, <= fw860.b3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= fw950, <= fw950.70CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= fw1010, <= fw1010.50CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= fw1020.00, <= fw1020.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= fw1030.00, <= fw1030.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
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