CVE-2026-72280

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: nv: Drop bogus WARN for write to ZCR_EL2 It is entirely possible for a guest to write to the ZCR_EL2 sysreg alias while in a nested context, as it is expected if FEAT_NV2 is advertised to the L1 hypervisor. Get rid of the bogus WARN which, since the hyp vectors were installed at this point, has the effect of a hyp_panic...

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f1667098c6ae7ec81a9a56859cfdacb822aa0d0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7deadbc5dab5b8e2316364603bc6281129c8461c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6561597dba97e3e8479a9919bda172cf43eb902c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5000bcae71c869cba6674c326fec2d8ad659ae3a

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-15

Updated: 2026-08-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00209