CVE-2026-81627

MEDIUMCVSS 6.7

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.

Published 2026-09-18 · last modified 2026-09-18

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Ncerio by BeyondNets · data from NVD, CISA KEV, EPSS.