CVE-2026-16140
HIGH
NVD
CVSS Score
8.8
Severity
HIGH
Published
Sep 15, 2026
Vendor
unknown
Description
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.