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🛡️ CVE-2026-14971 — powervm-novalink

🟢 CVSS 3.9 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-16 NVD
3.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

IBM PowerVM Novalink 2.2.02.2.12.2.1.1, and 2.3.02.3.0.12.3.12.3.2 IBM NovaLink APIs misconfiguration may increase attack surface and enable unintended or unauthorized operations under non-default conditions.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Affected software

CVE-2026-14971 is recorded against 1 package.

  • powervm-novalink

Timeline and source

Published on 17 July 2026 and last revised on 11 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.ibm.com

Other advisories for this package

powervm-novalink has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-16) in other software:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-16
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-17
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-11
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
powervm-novalink — —

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