CVE-2026-46032

CVE-2026-46032

Medium · published May 27, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: nSVM: Triple fault if restore host CR3 fails on nested #VMEXIT

If loading L1's CR3 fails on a nested #VMEXIT, nested_svm_vmexit()

returns an error code that is ignored by most callers, and continues to

run L1 with corrupted state. A sane recovery is not possible in this

case, and HW behavior is to cause a shutdown. Inject a triple fault

instead, and do not return early from nested_svm_vmexit(). Continue

cleaning up the vCPU state (e.g. clear pending exceptions), to handle

the failure as gracefully as possible.

From the APM:

Upon #VMEXIT, the processor performs the following actions in order to

return to the host execution context:

...

if (illegal host state loaded, or exception while loading host state)

shutdown

else

execute first host instruction following the VMRUN

Remove the return value of nested_svm_vmexit(), which is mostly

unchecked anyway.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00172 · 6.2th percentile
Published
2026-05-27T18:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.9, < 7.0.47.0.4
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAY 12:56Z
    KVM: nSVM: Triple fault if restore host CR3 fails on nested #VMEXIT
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