CVE-2026-89929

KVM: nVM: Ensure INVVPID is emulated on the correct physical CPU

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Sep 16, 2026
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

KVM: nVM: Ensure INVVPID is emulated on the correct physical CPU

When emulating INVVPID, KVM executes INVVPID on the physical CPU using vpid02 (instead of the L1 assigned VPID), after doing some validations on the operands. However, it is possible that the physical CPU KVM executes INVVPID on is different from the CPU L2 is running on.

For example, in the following scenario: - L2 runs on CPU #1 and exits to L1 (vmx->nested.vmcs02.cpu=1) - L1 migrates to CPU #2 and executes INVVPID - KVM executes INVVPID on CPU #2 - L1 migrates back to CPU #1 and runs L2 (vmx->nested.vmcs02.cpu=1)

The TLB entries on CPU #1 are never invalidated, because INVVPID was executed on CPU #2, and vmcs02 never ran on a different pCPU (i.e. vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs() will *not* request KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH).

Ensure that INVVPID is being executed on the same pCPU that L2 last ran on, and if not, fallback to clearing last_vpid=0 to trigger a full VPID flush on the next nested VM-Enter (as KVM will detect L1 using a different VPID for L2). If L2 ends up running on a different pCPU, KVM will flush the TLB anyway through vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before 1759a565a25c814ced9281a708749c71fa69d6feAffected
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before d03e721801ac54b9fdf05668aa0c069f07913b68Affected
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before 27bdeb5fd19046ffba9ff234e92fe553eb2efb30Affected
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before 9941850e8adf164d005dbd3774c4b79e91a3cb8eAffected
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before 6d00e67326d831e6e610933a3800712f4ffe6ec1Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.4Affected
  • before 4.4Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.51 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.5 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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