CVE-2026-33554

Description

ipmi-oem in FreeIPMI before 1.6.17 has exploitable buffer overflows on response messages. The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification defines a set of interfaces for platform management. It is implemented by a large number of hardware manufacturers to support system management. It is most commonly used for sensor reading (e.g., CPU temperatures through the ipmi-sensors command within FreeIPMI) and remote power control (the ipmipower command). The ipmi-oem client command implements a set of a IPMI OEM commands for specific hardware vendors. If a user has supported hardware, they may wish to use the ipmi-oem command to send a request to a server to retrieve specific information. Three subcommands were found to have exploitable buffer overflows on response messages. They are: "ipmi-oem dell get-last-post-code - get the last POST code and string describing the error on some Dell servers," "ipmi-oem supermicro extra-firmware-info - get extra firmware info on Supermicro servers," and "ipmi-oem wistron read-proprietary-string - read a proprietary string on Wistron servers."

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Denial of service in a command line tool

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freeipmi	26.04 LTS resolute	Fixed 1.6.16-1ubuntu0.1
	25.10 questing	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.6.13-3ubuntu0.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.6.9-2ubuntu0.22.04.3
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.6.4-3ubuntu1.1+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1+esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1~0.16.04.1~esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.1.5-3ubuntu3.3+esm1

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Notes

mdeslaur

Because of compiler hardening in Ubuntu, this stack overflow is limited to a denial of service only. This is a denial of service in a command-line tool when connecting to a malicious IPMI device. Marking this as low priority.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
freeipmi	Upstream: ?id=b03

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-8613-1
FreeIPMI vulnerabilities
27 July 2026

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-33554