What is CVE-2023-30438?

CVE-2023-30438 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Ibm Powervm Hypervisor. CVSS score: 9.3/10. Published 2023-05-17.

How severe is CVE-2023-30438?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Ibm Powervm Hypervisor

CVE-2023-30438

An internally discovered vulnerability in PowerVM on IBM Power9 and Power10 systems could allow an attacker with privileged user access to a logical partition to perform an undetected violation of the isolation between logical partitions w…

EPSS: 0.002 (36.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.3 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Ibm Powervm Hypervisor — versions FW950.00, FW1010.00, FW1020.00

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6993021 (vendor-advisory)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252706 (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-30438?: CVE-2023-30438 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Ibm Powervm Hypervisor. CVSS score: 9.3/10. Published 2023-05-17.
How severe is CVE-2023-30438?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.3 out of 10.