Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-38917

Critical

Published: 10 December 2021

Published
10 December 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0028 51.7th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-38917 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Ibm Powervm Hypervisor. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 48.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW860, FW940, and FW950 could allow an attacker that gains service access to the FSP can read and write arbitrary host system memory through a series of carefully crafted service procedures. IBM X-Force ID: 210018.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

ibm
powervm hypervisor
fw860, fw940, fw950

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References