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CVE-2026-81627

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.7 Published: 2026-09-18 Modified: 2026-09-18

Description

A flaw was found in QEMU. The VAPIC setup hypercall in hw/i386/vapic.c does not validate that the writable RAM alias remains within the option ROM window. A privileged guest user on a Q35/KVM machine can position this alias over locked SMRAM, bypassing chipset D_LCK protection and injecting code into System Management Mode memory.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-787

References