CVE-2025-36194 This Power System update is being released to address

What is CVE-2025-36194?

CVE-2025-36194 is a low-severity vulnerability in IBM PowerVM Hypervisor, published on 2 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1110.00 through FW1110.03, FW1060.00 through FW1060.51, and FW950.00 through FW950.F0 may expose a limited amount of data to a peer partition in specific shared processor configurations during certain operations.

Weakness: CWE-1262

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-36194?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Powervm Hypervisor.

How do I fix CVE-2025-36194?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-36194 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-36194 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-36194 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-vfp9-7p35-gg6g.