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CVE-2026-4937Power System Insufficient Entropy

Description

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1110.00 through FW1110.20, FW1060.00 through FW1060.71, and FW950.00 through FW950.H2 could allow a local attacker with administrative privileges to decrypt encrypted data due to certain hypervisor calls utilizing less entropy than requested.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By ibm

  2. · 5 months later

    Published

  3. · 1 day 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-2026-4937, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
ibmCNA (assigner)3.1Medium5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1Medium6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.13% · top 97% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.

Affected products

  • IBM · PowerVM Hypervisor

    • affected FW1110.00 – ≤ FW1110.20
    • affected FW1060.00 – ≤ FW1060.71
    • affected FW950.00 – ≤ FW950.H2

What to do

Solution: Customers with the products below should install FW1110.30(1110_125), FW1120.00(1120_159), or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 11 * IBM Power System E1180 (9080-HEU) Customers with the products below should install FW1110.30(1110_145), FW1120.00(1120_183), or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 11 * IBM Power System S1122 (9824-22A) * IBM Power System S1124 (9824-42A) * IBM Power System S1122s (9824-22B) * IBM Power System S1114 (9824-41B) * IBM Power System L1122 (9856-22H) * IBM Power System L1124 (9856-42H) * IBM Power System E1150 (9043-MRU) Customers with the products below should install FW1060.72(1060_171) / FW1060.80(1060_180), or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 10 * IBM Power System E1080 (9080-HEX) Customers with the products below should install FW1060.72(1060_177) / FW1060.80(1060_185), or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 10 * IBM Power System S1022 (9105-22A) * IBM Power System S1024 (9105-42A) * IBM Power System S1022s (9105-22B) * IBM Power System S1014 (9105-41B) * IBM Power System L1022 (9786-22H) * IBM Power System L1024 (9786-42H) * IBM Power System E1050 (9043-MRX) * IBM Power System S1012 (9028-21B) Customers with the products below should install FW950.H3(950_230) or newer to remediate this vulnerability. Power 9 * IBM Power System S922 (9009-22G) * IBM Power System H922 (9223-22S) * IBM Power System S914 (9009-41G) * IBM Power System S924 (9009-42G) * IBM Power System H924 (9223-42S) * IBM Power System E950 (9040-MR9) * IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S) The images mentioned above can be located at IBM Fix Central : https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

Workaround: Fully remediating this CVE requires administrators that have enabled Platform Keystore to take the following actions: * Reboot any partitions that have Platform Keystore enabled after updating firmware. * Regenerate all cryptographic keys that were generated by Platform Keystore on affected firmware versions, as those keys are considered weak.

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