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title: "CVE-2026-96261: IBM Power Systems Firmware - Denial of Service"
description: "IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1060.00 through FW1060.81 contains a denial of service caused by improper host firmware configuration parsing, letting authenticated service-level attackers crash the host firmware boot stack, exploit requires authenticated service-level access."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-96261/
---

# CVE-2026-96261 IBM Power Systems Firmware - Denial of Service

IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1060.00 through FW1060.81 contains a denial of service caused by improper host firmware configuration parsing, letting authenticated service-level attackers crash the host firmware boot stack, exploit requires authenticated service-level access.

CVSS base score 7.3 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

EPSS

0.14% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96261)

## Details

Type

Denial of Service

Impact

Denial Of Service

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H

Published

12 October 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-121](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/121.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest firmware version beyond FW1060.81.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96261](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96261)
- [https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7290127](https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7290127)

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## What this record can't tell you

- Whether you run the affected software, and where
- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
- What it would cost the business, ranked into what to fix first

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