CVE-2022-22445

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Published Jul 18, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Description

An attacker that gains service access to the FSP (POWER9 only) or gains admin authority to a partition can compromise partition firmware.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

IBM

PowerVM Hypervisor

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`FW1010`	affected	—
`FW950`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor::::::::

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-27591	An attacker that gains service access to the FSP (POWER9 only) or gains admin authority to a partition can compromise partition firmware.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.730% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224546
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6604071

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Ibm Powervm Hypervisor

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Sources

CVE record Updated: Sep 17, 2024, 12:01 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: ibm
Published: Jul 18, 2022, 5:00 PM
Updated: Sep 17, 2024, 12:01 AM
Reserved: Jan 3, 2022, 12:00 AM

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Vulnrichment No data

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NVD Updated: Jun 17, 2026, 4:28 AM

Status: Modified
Published: Jul 18, 2022, 6:15 PM
Modified: Jun 17, 2026, 4:28 AM

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