CVE-2025-0986 IBM PowerVM Hypervisor data manipulation

What is CVE-2025-0986?

CVE-2025-0986 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM PowerVM Hypervisor, published on 28 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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 compression using HW acceleration.

Weakness: CWE-409

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-0986?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Powervm Hypervisor.

How do I fix CVE-2025-0986?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-0986 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-0986 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0986 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
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Also known as GHSA-9qmj-p674-g42j.