CVE-2026-63938CWE-125

CVE-2026-63938

Critical · published July 19, 2026

CVSS v3.1
9.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

KVM: SEV: Check PSC request indices against the actual size of the buffer

When processing Page State Change (PSC) requests, validate the PSC buffer

against the effective size of the scratch area, which could be less than

the maximum size if the guest provided a pointer that isn't exactly at the

start of the GHCB shared buffer.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.3 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00196 · 8.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2026-07-19T20:17Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JUL 14:55Z
    KVM: SEV: Check PSC request indices against the actual size of the buffer
    cvelistv5