CVE-2026-46059

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2026-05-27 Modified: 2026-10-30 First seen: 2026-10-30 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nSVM: Always use NextRIP as vmcb02's NextRIP after first L2 VMRUN For guests with NRIPS disabled, L1 does not provide NextRIP when running an L2 with an injected soft interrupt, instead it advances the current RIP before running it. KVM uses the current RIP as the NextRIP in vmcb02 to emulate a CPU without NRIPS. However, after L2 runs the first time, NextRIP will be updated by the CPU and/or KVM, and the current RIP is no longer the correct value to use in vmcb02. Hence, after save/restore, use the current RIP if and only if a nested run is pending, otherwise use NextRIP. Give soft_int_next_rip the same treatment, as it's the same logic, just for a narrower use case. [sean: give soft_int_next_rip the same treatment]

Affected Software (8)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux cc440cdad5b7a4c1de12dace725209eb3e0cf663 < 98717fb482fa269db491f7c84aec777d3aeb2cd1
Linux Linux cc440cdad5b7a4c1de12dace725209eb3e0cf663 < b1a45e8a59bcf1f1ec0da6d4e42190b4211c67fc
Linux Linux cc440cdad5b7a4c1de12dace725209eb3e0cf663 < f9197a9dd1408e203147326139122f9c5312ce9c
Linux Linux cc440cdad5b7a4c1de12dace725209eb3e0cf663 < 3428ed1529a1af4cce5aff6c5bd2fcc39ad726bb
Linux Linux cc440cdad5b7a4c1de12dace725209eb3e0cf663 < 69fe1411a5ce678b4da6489b5d2282b4e1d13acf
Linux Linux cc440cdad5b7a4c1de12dace725209eb3e0cf663 < 8d397582f6b5e9fbcf09781c7c934b4910e94a50
Linux Linux 5.8
linux linux_kernel 5.8 – 6.18.27

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.12%
Raw Score 0.001230
Percentile 2.0%
Date 2026-11-01

EPSS Trend

2026-11-01
0.00123
2026-10-31
0.00123
2026-10-30
0.00122
2026-10-29
0.00122

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
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