CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-98472

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Oct 18, 2026Sources checked Oct 21, 2026

N/ACVSS not listedScore unavailable

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Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-98472. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-98472?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: SEV: Free have_run_cpus during VM destruction even if VM is no longer SEV

Unconditionally free SEV's "have run CPUs" cpumask in the VM destroy path, i.e. even for what appear to be non-SEV VMs, as an SEV VM becomes a non-SEV VM if its state is intra-host migrated.

Alternatively, the mask could be freed in sev_migrate_from() when "converting" the source VM, but that gets annoying because ideally KVM would nullify the mask to guard against UAF, and nullifying the mask would need be conditioned on CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y.

Freeing the mask during sev_migrate_from() is also not robust against other KVM bugs, though that's kind of a moot point since any such bugs would show up even if sev->active is never set. I.e.

KVM must get that side of things correct. But, that's not a great reason to add more code just to make things marginally less robust.

Source: NVD