Description
A flaw was found in QEMU. The VAPIC setup hypercall in hw/i386/vapic.c does not validate that the writable RAM alias remains within the option ROM window. A privileged guest user on a Q35/KVM machine can position this alias over locked SMRAM, bypassing chipset D_LCK protection and injecting code into System Management Mode memory.
References4
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.2
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 9 · as of 8 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-787
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