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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31593" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:42:19.567Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-14T17:42:33.985Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" 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-2026-31593" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31593.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31593" title: "KVM: SEV: Reject attempts to sync VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted vCPU" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: SEV: Reject attempts to sync VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted vCPU\n\nReject synchronizing vCPU state to its associated VMSA if the vCPU has\nalready been launched, i.e. if the VMSA has already been encrypted. On a\nhost with SNP enabled, accessing guest-private memory generates an RMP #PF\nand panics the host.\n\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ff1276cbfdf36000\n #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x80000003) - RMP violation\n PGD 5a31801067 P4D 5a31802067 PUD 40ccfb5063 PMD 40e5954063 PTE 80000040fdf36163\n SEV-SNP: PFN 0x40fdf36, RMP entry: [0x6010fffffffff001 - 0x000000000000001f]\n Oops: Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 33 UID: 0 PID: 996180 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Tainted: G OE\n Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE\n Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R7625/0H1TJT, BIOS 1.5.8 07/21/2023\n RIP: 0010:sev_es_sync_vmsa+0x54/0x4c0 [kvm_amd]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n snp_launch_update_vmsa+0x19d/0x290 [kvm_amd]\n snp_launch_finish+0xb6/0x380 [kvm_amd]\n sev_mem_enc_ioctl+0x14e/0x720 [kvm_amd]\n kvm_arch_vm_ioctl+0x837/0xcf0 [kvm]\n kvm_vm_ioctl+0x3fd/0xcc0 [kvm]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0xa3/0x100\n x64_sys_call+0xfe0/0x2350\n do_syscall_64+0x81/0x10f0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n RIP: 0033:0x7ffff673287d\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nNote, the KVM flaw has been present since commit ad73109ae7ec (\"KVM: SVM:\nProvide support to launch and run an SEV-ES guest\"), but has only been\nactively dangerous for the host since SNP support was added. With SEV-ES,\nKVM would \"just\" clobber guest state, which is totally fine from a host\nkernel perspective since userspace can clobber guest state any time before\nsev_launch_update_vmsa()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ad27ce155566f2b4400fa865859834592bd18777","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9609847ae65ca36233077c2b6cb2bc0fb37c77a"},{"version":"ad27ce155566f2b4400fa865859834592bd18777","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"692fdf05e55fa03960a1278afdc2478c12daea13"},{"version":"ad27ce155566f2b4400fa865859834592bd18777","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ef109e01e1d35199e1a97ea68bdfd3cf3fbf9ab"},{"version":"ad27ce155566f2b4400fa865859834592bd18777","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f85a4885eee8cb495961ffa371a91828afb9445"},{"version":"ad27ce155566f2b4400fa865859834592bd18777","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b9f7962e3e879d12da2bf47e02a24ec51690e3d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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