CVE-2026-45782CWE-416

Cloud Hypervisor: Use-after-free in virtio-block Async I/O Completion

High · published June 9, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Cloud Hypervisor is a Virtual Machine Monitor for Cloud workloads. From version 21.0 to before version 51.2, a guest can cause a use-after-free in the cloud-hypervisor process by submitting two virtio-block descriptor chains that reuse the same head_index while asynchronous block I/O is enabled (e.g. io_uring, aio). When the kernel completes the duplicate operation before the original, the completion path frees a bounce buffer that the kernel is still actively reading from or writing to, corrupting the freed memory. This issue has been patched in versions 51.2 and 52.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.9 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
EPSS
0.00180 · 7.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2026-06-09T22:53Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 JUN 22:53Z
    Cloud Hypervisor: Use-after-free in virtio-block Async I/O Completion
    cvelistv5