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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72287"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:55:09.624Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:42:22.571Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72287"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72287.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72287"
title: "KVM: nVMX: Move vTPR vs. TPR Threshold consistency check into \"normal\" checks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: nVMX: Move vTPR vs. TPR Threshold consistency check into \"normal\" checks\n\nMove the off-by-default consistency check for vmcs12.tpr_threshold vs.\nthe virtual APIC vTPR into the \"normal\" controls checks, as waiting until\nKVM has loaded some amount of state is unnecessary and actively dangerous.\nSpecifically, failure to unwind vmcs01.GUEST_CR3 to KVM's value when EPT\nis disabled results in KVM running L1 with an L1-controlled CR3, not with\nKVM's CR3!\n\nAlternatively, KVM could simply reset the MMU to force a reload of\nvmcs01.GUEST_CR3, but the _only_ reason the check was shoved into a \"late\"\nflow was to wait until the vmcs12 pages were retrieved.  Rather than build\nup more crusty code, simply access vTPR using a regular guest memory access\n(performance isn't a concern).  To circumvent the restrictions that led to\nKVM deferring nested_get_vmcs12_pages(), (a) use a VM-scoped API to read\nguest memory so that it always hits non-SMM memslots (for RSM), and (b)\nskip the check (since its off-by-default anyways) when the vCPU doesn't\nwant to run, i.e. when userspace is restoring/stuffing state.\n\nIf reading guest memory fails, simply skip the consistency check, as KVM's\nde facto ABI is that VMX instruction accesses to non-existent memory get\nPCI Bus Error semantics, where reads return 0xFFs.  And if vTPR=0xFF, then\nthe vTPR is guaranteed to be greater than or equal to TPR_THRESHOLD."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1100e4910ad207bc00aedc8dfdb228dd1b81f310","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d066368f72e6192af7e21c5817626f6da666991"},{"version":"1100e4910ad207bc00aedc8dfdb228dd1b81f310","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ebdac7554abb347ca4197be241116842161acd9b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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