CVE-2026-46655CWE-122CWE-190

CVE-2026-46655

High · published September 18, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

virtio-win provides Windows paravirtualized drivers for QEMU and KVM. From mm210 until mm320, the Viosock driver permits a low-privilege local process to submit an IOCTL_SELECT request with attacker-controlled VIRTIO_VSOCK_SELECT.Fdss[*].fd_count values that overflow the 32-bit sum used by VIOSockSelect for bounds checking. The wrapped sum can pass the FD_SETSIZE check even though an individual descriptor count is much larger than the expected limit. VIOSockSelectCopyFds then iterates using the unchecked count and writes beyond the allocated pPkt->Fds array in the NonPagedPool kernel heap. Successful exploitation can corrupt kernel memory and enable privilege escalation in a Windows guest running the driver. This issue is fixed in mm320.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00180 · 7.2th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow; CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Published
2026-09-18T21:16Z
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 SEP 03:23Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 18 SEP 16:46Z
    virtio-win: Integer overflow causing a heap overflow in Viosock driver
    cvelistv5