CVE-2026-16140

OpenBMC's IPMI implementation, phosphor-net-ipmid, is vulnerable to a logic flaw where the authorization context of an existing session can be replaced with a target account while still maintaining the original integrity and encryption keys. Several downstream vendors implement phosphor-net-ipmid as their IPMI stack, such as NVIDIA and H3C. This issue effectively allows for privilege escalation without re-authentication.

  • Published Sep 15, 2026
  • CVSS 8.8 high
  • 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

Affected software

CVE-2026-16140 at the National Vulnerability Database