CVE-2026-72285

CVE-2026-72285

High · published August 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

KVM: TDX: Reject concurrent change to CPUID entry count

Reject KVM_TDX_INIT_VM if userspace changes cpuid.nent between the

initial read and the subsequent copy of the initialization data.

tdx_td_init() first reads user_data->cpuid.nent to size the flexible

kvm_tdx_init_vm copy. The copied structure also contains cpuid.nent,

and that field can differ from the value used to size the allocation if

userspace modifies the input concurrently. setup_tdparams_cpuids() later

passes init_vm->cpuid.nent to kvm_find_cpuid_entry2(), which uses it as

the array bound for the copied entries.

Require the copied count to match the value used to size the allocation

so that CPUID parsing cannot access beyond the entries actually copied.

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
0.00165 · 5.4th percentile
Published
2026-08-15T10:21Z
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 05:55Z
    KVM: TDX: Reject concurrent change to CPUID entry count
    cvelistv5