What is CVE-2025-0986?

CVE-2025-0986 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Powervm Hypervisor, classified under Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification). CVSS score: 4.5/10. Published 2025-03-28.

How severe is CVE-2025-0986?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Ibm Powervm Hypervisor

CVE-2025-0986

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1050.00 through FW1050.30 and FW1060.00 through FW1060.20 could allow a local user, under certain Linux processor combability mode configurations, to cause undetected data loss or errors when performing gzip compre…

EPSS: 0.000 (9.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Ibm Powervm Hypervisor — versions FW1050.00, FW1060.00

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-409 — Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7229349 (vendor-advisory, patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-0986?: CVE-2025-0986 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Powervm Hypervisor, classified under Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification). CVSS score: 4.5/10. Published 2025-03-28.
How severe is CVE-2025-0986?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.5 out of 10.