{"id":"CVE-2026-53277","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-53277","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:28:32.032Z","title":"In 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…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: arm64: Take the SRCU lock for page table walks in fault injection and AT emulation\n\nwalk_s1() and kvm_walk_nested_s2() expect to be called while holding\nkvm->srcu to guard against memslot changes. While this is generally\nthe case, __kvm_at_s12() and __kvm_find_s1_desc_level() call into the\nrespective walkers without taking kvm->srcu.\n\nFix by acquiring kvm->srcu prior to the table walk in both instances.","published":"2026-06-25T09:16:46.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-21T13:19:13.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-662","CWE-820"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00107,"percentile":0.01129,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.11%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0648b375aa951cc15d9e90f9ac4de71e0b51fa45","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97706097f9b851cfe55c3b00b083dfc2bcf542bc","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec42b4ed1b072ea2d03f086061aa67bad6d8de39","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2ca45b50d4216c9cc7ffabf50d9ad1932209251","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:64775","source":"0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53277","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492725","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c"},{"url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-53277.json","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53277","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}