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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2026-4937 json

Power System Insufficient Entropy

published 2026-08-19 2 mo ago modified 2026-08-25 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-62842

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • ibm power_system_s1122_(9824-22a)_firmware fw1110.31
  • ibm power_system_s1124_(9824-42a)_firmware fw1110.31
  • ibm power_system_s1122s_(9824-22b)_firmware fw1110.31
  • ibm power_system_s1114_(9824-41b)_firmware fw1110.31
  • ibm power_system_l1122_(9856-22h)_firmware fw1110.31
  • ibm power_system_l1124_(9856-42h)_firmware fw1110.31
  • ibm power_system_e1150_(9043-mru)_firmware fw1110.31
  • ibm power_system_e1080_(9080-hex)_firmware fw1060.81
  • ibm power_system_s1022_(9105-22a)_firmware fw1060.81
  • ibm power_system_s1024_(9105-42a)_firmware fw1060.81
  • ibm power_system_s1022s_(9105-22b)_firmware fw1060.81
  • ibm power_system_s1014_(9105-41b)_firmware fw1060.81
  • ibm power_system_l1022_(9786-22h)_firmware fw1060.81
  • ibm power_system_l1024_(9786-42h)_firmware fw1060.81
  • ibm power_system_e1050_(9043-mrx)_firmware fw1060.81
  • ibm power_system_s1012_(9028-21b)_firmware fw1060.81
  • ibm power_system_e1180_(9080-heu)_firmware fw1110.31
  • ibm power_system_s922_(9009-22g)_firmware fw950.h3
  • ibm power_system_h922_(9223-22s)_firmware fw950.h3
  • ibm power_system_s914_(9009-41g)_firmware fw950.h3

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • IBM PowerVM Hypervisor

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.