CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-43133

HighCVSS 7.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's KVM implementation for nested SVM (nSVM). The VMLOAD/VMSAVE emulation for L2 guests incorrectly used vmcb02 instead of vmcb01, potentially causing incorrect virtual machine state.

Risk Assessment

The organization may face unexpected behavior or crashes of virtual machines in nested virtualization environments, impacting service stability and security.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit cc3ed80ae69f or later) and reboot systems with the KVM module loaded.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nSVM: Always use vmcb01 in VMLOAD/VMSAVE emulation Commit cc3ed80ae69f ("KVM: nSVM: always use vmcb01 to for vmsave/vmload of guest state") made KVM always use vmcb01 for the fields controlled by VMSAVE/VMLOAD, but it missed updating the VMLOAD/VMSAVE emulation code to always use vmcb01. As a result, if VMSAVE/VMLOAD is executed by an L2 guest and is not intercepted by L1, KVM will mistakenly use vmcb02. Always use vmcb01 instead of the current VMCB.

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