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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40026" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-28T09:32:33.075Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:36.361Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40026" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40026.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40026" title: "KVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O\n\nWhen completing emulation of instruction that generated a userspace exit\nfor I/O, don't recheck L1 intercepts as KVM has already finished that\nphase of instruction execution, i.e. has already committed to allowing L2\nto perform I/O. If L1 (or host userspace) modifies the I/O permission\nbitmaps during the exit to userspace, KVM will treat the access as being\nintercepted despite already having emulated the I/O access.\n\nPivot on EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE to detect that KVM is completing emulation.\nOf the three users of EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE, only complete_emulated_io() (the\nintended \"recipient\") can reach the code in question. gp_interception()'s\nuse is mutually exclusive with is_guest_mode(), and\ncomplete_emulated_insn_gp() unconditionally pairs EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE with\nEMULTYPE_SKIP.\n\nThe bad behavior was detected by a syzkaller program that toggles port I/O\ninterception during the userspace I/O exit, ultimately resulting in a WARN\non vcpu-\u003earch.pio.count being non-zero due to KVM no completing emulation\nof the I/O instruction.\n\n WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 1083 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:8039 emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm]\n Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass\n CPU: 23 UID: 1000 PID: 1083 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-rc5-c1610d2d66b1-next-vm #74 NONE\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015\n RIP: 0010:emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm]\n PKRU: 55555554\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n kvm_fast_pio+0xd6/0x1d0 [kvm]\n vmx_handle_exit+0x149/0x610 [kvm_intel]\n kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xda8/0x1ac0 [kvm]\n kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x244/0x8c0 [kvm]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0\n do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xc60\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n \u003c/TASK\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a908eca437789589dd4624da428614c1275064dc"},{"version":"8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00338255bb1f422642fb2798ebe92e93b6e4209b"},{"version":"8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0ce3ed1048a47986d15aef1a98ebda25560d257"},{"version":"8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba35a5d775799ce5ad60230be97336f2fefd518e"},{"version":"8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d3abf3f7e8b1abb082070a343de82d7efc80523"},{"version":"8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e7177c7e32cb806f348387b7f4faafd4a5b32054"},{"version":"8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a062a5c55adc5507600b9ae6d911e247e2f1d6e"},{"version":"8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7366830642505683bbe905a2ba5d18d6e4b512b8"},{"version":"8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e750f85391286a4c8100275516973324b621a269"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.0"},{"version":"5.4.301","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.246","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.195","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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