Description
The PowerVM Logical Partition Mobility(LPM) (PowerVM Hypervisor FW920, FW930, FW940, and FW950) encryption key exchange protocol can be compromised. If an attacker has the ability to capture encrypted LPM network traffic and is able to gain service access to the FSP they can use this information to perform a series of PowerVM service procedures to decrypt the captured migration traffic IBM X-Force ID: 198232
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6475619
VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/198232
Scores
CVSS v3
4.4
EPSS
0.0055
EPSS Percentile
42.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
Status
published
Products (4)
ibm/powervm_hypervisor
fw920
ibm/powervm_hypervisor
fw930
ibm/powervm_hypervisor
fw940
ibm/powervm_hypervisor
fw950
Published
Jul 29, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026