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CVE-2021-38937 — Ibm Powervm Hypervisor security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.8

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW940, FW950, and FW1010 could allow an authenticated user to cause the system to crash using a specially crafted IBMi Hypervisor call. IBM X-Force ID: 210894.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.8 (2.0)
Published
2021-12-10
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • ibm / powervm_hypervisor / fw940
  • ibm / powervm_hypervisor / fw950
  • ibm / powervm_hypervisor / fw1010

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General vulnerability remediation

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Check exposure

  • Confirm the affected component, deployment paths, reachable interfaces, and enabled features from inventories and configuration, without probing production destructively.
  • Compare the advisory's affected conditions with the repository lockfiles, build manifests, artifacts, and runtime inventory.
  • Identify data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and privilege level for every confirmed affected deployment.

Remediate safely

  • Apply a vendor-supported fix or remove the affected component or feature; record the selected change and its source in the repository.
  • Update direct and transitive dependency locks, generated artifacts, deployment manifests, and asset inventories together.
  • Add a regression test for the documented unsafe condition using inert inputs and preserve rollback instructions.

Authoritative sources

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