Is CVE-2026-17504 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-17504?

CVE-2026-17504 has a CVSS v3 severity of MEDIUM (5.1).

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CVE-2026-17504

Description

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1120.00 through FW1120.01, FW1110.00 through FW1110.31, FW1060.00 through FW1060.81, and FW950.00 through FW950.H3 is affected by a vulnerability in the partition firmware runtime. An attacker with root access to a partition can send a specially crafted request to the partition firmware runtime, causing it to crash with possible memory corruption.