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CVE-2023-30438

IBM PowerVM gain access

Description

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.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By ibm

  2. · 39 days later

    Published

  3. · 21 months later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2023-30438, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
ibmCNA (assigner)3.1Critical9.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Modified3.1High8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.3.

Affected products

  • IBM · PowerVM Hypervisor

    • affected FW950.00 – ≤ FW950.70
    • affected FW1010.00 – ≤ FW1010.50
    • affected FW1020.00 – ≤ FW1020.30
    • affected FW1030.00 – ≤ FW1030.10

References

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