# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89931"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:32:22.202Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:55:05.944Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89931"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89931.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89931"
title: "KVM: nVMX: Ensure KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES is cleared on VM-Exit"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: nVMX: Ensure KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES is cleared on VM-Exit\n\nAlways check and clear KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES when emulating a\nnested VM-Exit to ensure the request is cleared, even when KVM was built\nwith CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV=n, as KVM subtly relies on the \"check\" to clear\nthe flag and thus avoid double-mapping the vmcs12 pages, e.g. if KVM\nmanages to bail from VM-Enter without processing the request, and then\nemulates VMLAUNCH or VMRESUME."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b4f69df0f65e97fec439130a0d0a8b9c7cc02df2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae190f2439ca30067927077bf570d4c5edf07a0f"},{"version":"b4f69df0f65e97fec439130a0d0a8b9c7cc02df2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"674a3244f07f323f21a106a7bdcaebb6db6a5058"},{"version":"b4f69df0f65e97fec439130a0d0a8b9c7cc02df2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bbec4adc2f340d85f4a77a9ddcddaa6b1f4639c5"},{"version":"b4f69df0f65e97fec439130a0d0a8b9c7cc02df2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"11722439fb206c88e6f31be54173efa9880b4ccb"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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