CVE-2023-33851 IBM PowerVM Hypervisor information disclosure

What is CVE-2023-33851?

CVE-2023-33851 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM PowerVM Hypervisor, published on 4 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW950.00 through FW950.90, FW1020.00 through FW1020.40, and FW1030.00 through FW1030.30 could reveal sensitive partition data to a system administrator. IBM X-Force ID: 257135.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-33851?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Powervm Hypervisor.

How do I fix CVE-2023-33851?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-33851 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2023-33851 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-33851 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM PowerVM Hypervisor

• CVE-2023-30438 IBM PowerVM gain access Critical 9.3
• CVE-2021-38918 Security feature bypass in PowerVM Hypervisor High 8.6
• CVE-2022-22445 Privilege escalation in PowerVM Hypervisor High 7.6
• CVE-2021-38917 Privilege escalation in PowerVM Hypervisor High 7.4
• CVE-2025-36035 IBM PowerVM Hypervisor denial of service Medium 6.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-xf9p-vpmr-grq4.