CVE-2026-89929

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89929
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89929.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-89929
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-09-16T10:32:20Z
Modified
2026-09-25T18:27:30Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
KVM: nVM: Ensure INVVPID is emulated on the correct physical CPU
Details

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().

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89929.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0
Fixed
d03e721801ac54b9fdf05668aa0c069f07913b68
Fixed
27bdeb5fd19046ffba9ff234e92fe553eb2efb30
Fixed
9941850e8adf164d005dbd3774c4b79e91a3cb8e
Fixed
6d00e67326d831e6e610933a3800712f4ffe6ec1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89929.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.4.0
Fixed
6.12.110
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.51
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89929.json"