ipmi-oem in FreeIPMI before 1.16.17 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."
History

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Gnu
Gnu freeipmi
Vendors & Products Gnu
Gnu freeipmi

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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Title freeipmi: buffer overflows on response messages via ipmi-oem
Weaknesses CWE-120
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Moderate


Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-121
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:45:00 +0000

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Description ipmi-oem in FreeIPMI before 1.16.17 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."
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-24T18:50:48.586Z

Reserved: 2026-03-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2026-33554

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-03-24T18:50:44.689Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-03-24T15:16:35.743

Modified: 2026-03-24T20:16:30.357

Link: CVE-2026-33554

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-03-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-33554 - Bugzilla