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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40102" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-30T09:48:07.790Z" updatedAt: "2026-09-02T12:49:25.880Z" 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-2025-40102" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40102.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40102" title: "KVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events before init" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events before init\n\nAnother day, another syzkaller bug. KVM erroneously allows userspace to\npend vCPU events for a vCPU that hasn't been initialized yet, leading to\nKVM interpreting a bunch of uninitialized garbage for routing /\ninjecting the exception.\n\nIn one case the injection code and the hyp disagree on whether the vCPU\nhas a 32bit EL1 and put the vCPU into an illegal mode for AArch64,\ntripping the BUG() in exception_target_el() during the next injection:\n\n kernel BUG at arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c:40!\n Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP\n CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 318 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.17.0-rc4-00104-g10fd0285305d #6 PREEMPT\n Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\n pstate: 21402009 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n pc : exception_target_el+0x88/0x8c\n lr : pend_serror_exception+0x18/0x13c\n sp : ffff800082f03a10\n x29: ffff800082f03a10 x28: ffff0000cb132280 x27: 0000000000000000\n x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff0000c2a99c20 x24: 0000000000000000\n x23: 0000000000008000 x22: 0000000000000002 x21: 0000000000000004\n x20: 0000000000008000 x19: ffff0000c2a99c20 x18: 0000000000000000\n x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 00000000200000c0\n x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000\n x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 0000000000000000\n x8 : ffff800082f03af8 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000\n x5 : ffff800080f621f0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000\n x2 : 000000000040009b x1 : 0000000000000003 x0 : ffff0000c2a99c20\n Call trace:\n exception_target_el+0x88/0x8c (P)\n kvm_inject_serror_esr+0x40/0x3b4\n __kvm_arm_vcpu_set_events+0xf0/0x100\n kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x180/0x9d4\n kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x60c/0x9f4\n __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xac/0x104\n invoke_syscall+0x48/0x110\n el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0\n do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28\n el0_svc+0x34/0xf0\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe4\n el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c\n Code: f946bc01 b4fffe61 9101e020 17fffff2 (d4210000)\n\nReject the ioctls outright as no sane VMM would call these before\nKVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT anyway. Even if it did the exception would've been\nthrown away by the eventual reset of the vCPU's state." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b7b27facc7b50a5fce0afaa3df56157136ce181a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b0ab34a9e4cd5b88b522cc156e792cefe3085334"},{"version":"b7b27facc7b50a5fce0afaa3df56157136ce181a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d64461d38972302f0243498ff409b0d54e14e106"},{"version":"b7b27facc7b50a5fce0afaa3df56157136ce181a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b498f0da45a388b40195f7198455c62fe366a372"},{"version":"b7b27facc7b50a5fce0afaa3df56157136ce181a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b854e68365a84dfa984ee81268e10b9311ac9d2"},{"version":"b7b27facc7b50a5fce0afaa3df56157136ce181a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c0fcd72e7eb50205dc20731033b0b1c67ecbe4dc"},{"version":"b7b27facc7b50a5fce0afaa3df56157136ce181a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64a04e6320fc5affbadc59dc7024d79f909bfe84"},{"version":"b7b27facc7b50a5fce0afaa3df56157136ce181a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0aa1b76fe1429629215a7c79820e4b96233ac4a3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19"},{"version":"5.10.269","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.220","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.187","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.108","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.5","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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