CVE-2026-46655

high

Description

virtio-win provides Windows paravirtualized drivers for QEMU and KVM. From mm210 until mm320, the Viosock driver permits a low-privilege local process to submit an IOCTL_SELECT request with attacker-controlled VIRTIO_VSOCK_SELECT.Fdss[*].fd_count values that overflow the 32-bit sum used by VIOSockSelect for bounds checking. The wrapped sum can pass the FD_SETSIZE check even though an individual descriptor count is much larger than the expected limit. VIOSockSelectCopyFds then iterates using the unchecked count and writes beyond the allocated pPkt->Fds array in the NonPagedPool kernel heap. Successful exploitation can corrupt kernel memory and enable privilege escalation in a Windows guest running the driver. This issue is fixed in mm320.

References

https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/security/advisories/GHSA-qrhp-4mhp-hjwh

https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/releases/tag/mm320

https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull/1568

https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/commit/c6bef93d7909584bbda4e5c87603ea175825f342

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-18

Updated: 2026-09-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0012