{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-40026", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T07:20:57.152Z", "datePublished": "2025-10-28T09:32:33.075Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:07:08.793Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:07:08.793Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O\n\nWhen completing emulation of instruction that generated a userspace exit\nfor I/O, don't recheck L1 intercepts as KVM has already finished that\nphase of instruction execution, i.e. has already committed to allowing L2\nto perform I/O. If L1 (or host userspace) modifies the I/O permission\nbitmaps during the exit to userspace, KVM will treat the access as being\nintercepted despite already having emulated the I/O access.\n\nPivot on EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE to detect that KVM is completing emulation.\nOf the three users of EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE, only complete_emulated_io() (the\nintended \"recipient\") can reach the code in question. gp_interception()'s\nuse is mutually exclusive with is_guest_mode(), and\ncomplete_emulated_insn_gp() unconditionally pairs EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE with\nEMULTYPE_SKIP.\n\nThe bad behavior was detected by a syzkaller program that toggles port I/O\ninterception during the userspace I/O exit, ultimately resulting in a WARN\non vcpu->arch.pio.count being non-zero due to KVM no completing emulation\nof the I/O instruction.\n\n WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 1083 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:8039 emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm]\n Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass\n CPU: 23 UID: 1000 PID: 1083 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-rc5-c1610d2d66b1-next-vm #74 NONE\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015\n RIP: 0010:emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm]\n PKRU: 55555554\n Call Trace:\n \n kvm_fast_pio+0xd6/0x1d0 [kvm]\n vmx_handle_exit+0x149/0x610 [kvm_intel]\n kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xda8/0x1ac0 [kvm]\n kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x244/0x8c0 [kvm]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0\n do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xc60\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n " } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H", "baseScore": 7.9, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - Exploitation requires either `KVM_RUN`/`ioctl()` access to `/dev/kvm` on the host or code execution inside a guest running a nested hypervisor; there is no network-reachable path to `x86_emulate_insn()`.\nAC:L - The syzkaller reproducer deterministically toggles the port-I/O bitmap while servicing the `KVM_EXIT_IO` exit, and the guest-side variant only needs a second L1 vCPU to write the bitmap page — the attacker controls both sides of the window, and nested virt is enabled by default on kvm_intel/kvm_amd.\nPR:L - The attacker needs only unprivileged access to `/dev/kvm` (commonly granted via the `kvm` group or a VMM process), or ordinary code execution inside a guest; no root or CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the init namespace is required.\nUI:N - The vCPU thread reaches the buggy re-check on the normal `KVM_RUN` re-entry path after a userspace I/O exit; no victim action is needed.\nS:C - A guest (L1/L2) triggers corrupted state and a WARN/panic in the host kernel's KVM module, crossing the guest-to-host security boundary, and the aborted emulation also crosses the L1/L2 authority boundary by delivering an I/O intercept L1 never legitimately received.\nC:L - The stale `pio.count`/`pio.size` makes the next emulated `in` take the completion path and hand back data captured during the earlier I/O read on L2's behalf, leaking bounded `pio_data` contents across the L1/L2 boundary; the copy is capped at the 1024-byte `read_cache`, so it is not an arbitrary read.\nI:L - KVM injects a nested IOIO VM-exit to L1 for an access it already performed against the host device model (double execution) and subsequently substitutes stale `pio_data` for a real port read, corrupting guest I/O state in a limited, non-arbitrary way.\nA:H - The un-cleared `vcpu->arch.pio.count` trips `WARN_ON_ONCE()` in `emulator_pio_in_out()` in the host kernel — a full host panic on the widely deployed `panic_on_warn=1` configuration — and leaves the vCPU with permanently desynchronized emulation state." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c", "arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h", "arch/x86/kvm/x86.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": 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