CVE-2026-46076

KVM: nSVM: Raise #UD if unhandled VMMCALL isn't intercepted by L1

HIGH
7.9
CVSS Score
Published: May 27, 2026 at 12:58 PM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nSVM: Raise #UD if unhandled VMMCALL isn't intercepted by L1 Explicitly synthesize a #UD for VMMCALL if L2 is active, L1 does NOT want to intercept VMMCALL, nested_svm_l2_tlb_flush_enabled() is true, and the hypercall is something other than one of the supported Hyper-V hypercalls. When all of the above conditions are met, KVM will intercept VMMCALL but never forward it to L1, i.e. will let L2 make hypercalls as if it were L1. The TLFS says a whole lot of nothing about this scenario, so go with the architectural behavior, which says that VMMCALL #UDs if it's not intercepted. Opportunistically do a 2-for-1 stub trade by stub-ifying the new API instead of the helpers it uses. The last remaining "single" stub will soon be dropped as well. [sean: rewrite changelog and comment, tag for stable, remove defunct stubs]

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.13 ≤ v < 6.18.276.19 ≤ v < 7.0.46.2 ≤ v < 6.12.863f4a812edf5cb0a50e65fbdfafdb3e688da18f166.2
Vendor states this is fixed in 009c0f726abeaa67aad1d96b883bdce01d405ce2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5fb4a5f361565f5b629d8a8fe5288ce8463c5727 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 924d721fae95687acedbaf624a094ed0e8b67104 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c36991c6f8d2ab56ee67aff04e3c357f45cfc76c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.86 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.27 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.9HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusUNDERGOING ANALYSIS
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-863

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