CVE-2026-72286

KVM: SEV: Do not allow intra-host migration/mirroring of SNP VMs

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 15, 2026 at 05:55 AM UTC
Updated: October 16, 2026 at 07:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SEV: Do not allow intra-host migration/mirroring of SNP VMs The intra-host migration/mirroring feature is not fully implemented for SEV-SNP VMs. The proper migration requires additional SNP-specific state such as guest_req_mutex, guest_req_buf, and guest_resp_buf to be transferred or initialized on the destination. The SNP VM mirroring requires vmsa features to be copied as well otherwise ASID would be bound to SNP range while VM is detected as a SEV VM. Reject SNP source VMs in migration/mirroring until proper SNP state transfer is implemented. [sean: let lines poke past 80 chars, tag for stable]

Affected

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

1dfe571c12cf99244b933208fb77f29471ded6776.11
Vendor states this is fixed in 6ee4140788234a6fabf59e6a50e38cdb936008cd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b70404b89daad5f9f33f7ac640b1065cba639935 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ba06690b28be950bd46d938d9b919c4024292627 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d2f9df3b615ca0cd45899c090366945528186052 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.97 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.40 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

8.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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