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CVE-2026-23554

Use after free of paging structures in EPT

CVSS 7.8 HIGHEPSS 0.1%CWE-367
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
23 Mar 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
The Intel EPT paging code uses an optimization to defer flushing of any cached EPT state until the p2m lock is dropped, so that multiple modifications done under the same locked region only issue a single flush. Freeing of paging structures however is not deferred until the flushing is done, and can result in freed pages transiently being present in cached state. Such stale entries can point to memory ranges not owned by the guest, thus allowing access to unintended memory regions.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Xen · Xen

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