CVE-2026-53277
HIGH 8.8In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Take the SRCU lock for page table walks in fault injection and AT emulation walk_s1() and kvm_walk_nested_s2() expect to be called while holding kvm->srcu to guard against memslot changes. While this is generally the case, __kvm_at_s12() and __kvm_find_s1_desc_level() call into the respective walkers without taking kvm->srcu. Fix by acquiring kvm->srcu prior to the table walk in both instances.
Severe if exploited (CVSS 8.8), but no known exploitation and low modeled probability. Patch on a normal cadence.
Exploitation likelihood
0.1%chance of exploitation in 30 days · 2nd percentile
Impact if exploited
8.8CVSS 3.1 · HIGH
- ConfidentialityHigh
- IntegrityHigh
- AvailabilityHigh
What an attacker needs
- ⚠Access: Requires local access to the host
- ⚠Privileges: Requires a low-privilege account
- ✓User interaction: No user interaction needed
- ✓Complexity: No special conditions — reliably repeatable
✓ lowers the bar for an attacker · ⚠ raises it
Affected
Products Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-820
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
Technical & other
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97706097f9b851cfe55c3b00b083dfc2bcf542bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec42b4ed1b072ea2d03f086061aa67bad6d8de39
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2ca45b50d4216c9cc7ffabf50d9ad1932209251
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53277
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492725
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-53277.json